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Country singer Paul Bogart performs during a concert on Tuesday at Central Park in All-Metro Boys Golfer of the Year Justin Moore, 17, pauses at Forest Ridge Golf Club in Broken Arrow on June 5. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World
Chuck Davis (from left), Luther Harrison, Royce Rosser and Ray Perkins play dominoes at the Broken Arrow Senior Center on June 10. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
Broken Arrow. The concert was part of the Broken Arrow Arts and Humanities Council’s Tuesdays in the Park series. TIMOTHY TAI/Tulsa World
Ukulele class participant Darlene Drogmiller rehearses at the Broken Arrow Senior Center on June 10. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
The sun sets over a field at the corner of North 84th Street and East Kenosha Street in Broken Arrow. Photo by Miles Lacy
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Chuck Davis plays dominoes at the Broken Arrow Senior Center on June 10. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
Ukulele class leader Art Pancock rehearses at the Broken Arrow Senior Center on June 10. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
Bridge player Sue Muzika laughs as she plays the game at the Broken Arrow Senior Center on June 10. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
Jodi Lalicker swings around her son, Noah Lalicker, 1, during a concert on Tuesday at Central Park in Broken Arrow. The concert was part of the Broken Arrow Arts and Humanities Council’s Tuesdays in the Park series. TIMOTHY TAI/Tulsa World
Instrumentalists rehearse in a ukulele class at the Broken Arrow Senior Center on June 10. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
Ukulele class participant Les Evey rehearses at the Broken Arrow Senior Center on June 10. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
Bridge player David Bailey deals cards in a game at the Broken Arrow Senior Center on June 10. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
Children play in a creek during a Paul Bogart concert on Tuesday at Central Park in Broken Arrow. The concert was part of the Broken Arrow Arts and Humanities Council’s Tuesdays in the Park series. TIMOTHY TAI/Tulsa World
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Childers family members stand in front of the Childers homestead. Courtesy
Forest Hills Assisted Living residents Violet and Harold Frieze look over family photo albums in their apartment in Broken Arrow on June 19. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World
Looking Back at Broken Arrow When William Childers made his way
of Warriors and later House of Kings. One
to what is now Broken Arrow, he could
of Napoleon’s four sons, Ellis, followed in
not have known the impact that his de-
his father’s footsteps. He was educated at
scendants would have on the area, state,
Carlisle and admitted to the bar in 1887
and even nation. When he began building
and served as an attorney and member of
the family’s homestead near what is today
the Creek government. Ellis had two mar-
Ben Lumpkin Road (305th East Avenue)
riages some years apart. The irst yielded
and Omaha (51st Street) he began farm-
two children while the second marriage
ing and opened a store. His son, Napoleon
had ive. One of those ive was named Er-
Bonaparte Childers, came to the area with nest. Ernest’s rearing was a family afair his father. Pole, as he was known, joined
with his half-brother, Walter, playing a
the 1st Indian Regiment at the outbreak of large part. It was Walter who insisted that
Kenneth and Renee Navarro set two tables in the dining room to accommodate their children in Broken Arrow on June 19. Navarro is a 74-year-old father who has adopted and fostered many children in the past six years. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World
Broken Arrow Chamber
the Civil War. After the war, he returned
Ernest attend college. It was there Ernest
to the family’s homestead and built the
joined the ROTC and became involved in
log cabin that stands on the second loor
the military. With the outbreak of World
of the Broken Arrow History Museum
War II he was sent overseas. It was in
today. He was made a prosecuting at-
Oliveto, Italy, on Sept. 22, 1943, that he led
torney for the Creek Nation and served
his men in an assault of a German position
as a district judge in Indian Territory. He
that would earn him our nation’s highest
was also a member of the Creek’s House
military honor, the Medal of Honor.
Courtesy of the Broken Arrow Historical Society
President Wes Smithwick, Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett, TTCU President and CEO Tim Lyons, Tulsa Chamber President Mike Neal and project architect Tom Hauer break ground at the site of TTCU headquarters. Photo by Samantha Extance.
Movie-goers line up outside the Warren Theatre in Broken Arrow during its free movie day for kids on June 18. CORY YOUNG/ Tulsa World
Audience members listen as country singer Paul Bogart performs during a concert on Tuesday at Central Park in Broken Arrow. The concert was part of the Broken Arrow Arts and Humanities Council’s Tuesdays in the Park series. TIMOTHY TAI/Tulsa World
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Broken Arrow is Oklahoma’s fourth-largest city and Tulsa’s largest suburb, with an estimated population of 100,073 in 2011. It is also one of the state’s fastest-growing cities, adding more than 25,000 residents and a slew of big-box retailers since 2000. Known for quiet suburban life and short commutes to Tulsa, Broken Arrow has been named by national publications as one of the best 100 places to live, one of the 10 best places for families, one of the 25 safest cities in America and one of the most afordable suburbs in the south. A downtown revitalization efort that began in 2005 has aimed to create an arts and entertainment district centered on the city’s Main Street, and several new restaurants, a historical museum and a performing arts center have headlined the recent downtown improvements.
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