Morrison and Ripley are still miles away from Stillwater-- but Perkins is now the "bedroom community" to Stillwater-- it's the closest of the three, and Highway 177 goes straight down with to Perkins but for a little jog over on 33 to get to their main street.

I was born here, moved away as an infant but moved back from 73-75 (still an infant), and was out of Oklahoma until '84. Went to Glencoe High School, also not too far from Stillwater. And I'm back here, now...

It's not too bad a place-- but my mother hates it and never understood why my father liked it.

Funny about the beer-- I was in Lafayette, LA in '97 and brought back a bunch of Breaux Bridge beer-- to me that seemed much cooler than the Rolling Rock and Old Milwookiee and Anakin Lager that seem so prevalent in todays homogenized Wal-Mart world. On the other hand, you KNOW you're in the sticks in Oklahoma when the beer cans on the side of the road are the gold Coors cans rather than the silver Coors Light cans...

Not only was it cooler-- it tasted better. I'll have to go down and get some more, if I ever get a Hybrid or gas goes back down below $1.85/gallon....