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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Tulsa -- Greenwood Memorial

Image: from the Route66RoadTrip.com site

 Depending on which way we follow the route (Chicago to L.A. so we start with a big send-off from our kid and our in-laws, or the opposite? -- we have time to decide), Tulsa will be either a couple days ahead of or a couple days after the midpoint of the trip.  The real midpoint is at the Midpoint CafĂ© in Adrian, Texas. Check back in a few years for my review of the coffee.

In either case, we will need to spend some extra time in Tulsa -- both for the touristy things and to learn more about how the city is addressing its history as the site of the terrible racist massacre of 1921. I did not know of the attacks at all until I was well into adulthood. We as individuals and we as a country need to take some time to learn this part of our history and to take seriously its implications. 

The rampage took place just a mile or so north of the alignment of Route 66 through the city. 

Map image: from the Route66RoadTrip.com site