Over the past year or so, I’ve been to many small towns all across Oklahoma, sampling the diverse cultural pleasures (and cultish plagues) that each rural municipality of this state has chosen to celebrate through their varied area festivals and other local hullabaloos; but of all these friends and lovers, there’s really no one that compares to Luther.
From the completely genuine townsfolk to the fiercely independent businesses, if I’m being honest, I entered the city limits expecting the worst of humanity but left with only the best vision of it; the reason why I was in town this past Saturday was for, of course, the 2019 Luther Pecan Festival, the city’s tribute to the vaunted nut.