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Museum recreates pioneer life

FREDERICK, Okla. (AP) — The stories of Frances Goodknight and of the Pioneer Townsite Museum go hand in hand.

Goodknight, who turned 90 in August and still volunteers every weekday at the museum, said the idea for a museum that recreates the pioneer days of Southwest Oklahoma came to her in a daydream.

"I went to a one-room school as a child," she said. "And in later years we bought...

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