
Prost, Oklahoma:
From Tulsa’s enormous riverfront celebration to Oklahoma City’s bier halls and a late-October party in McAlester, Oklahoma is giving autumn a decidedly Bavarian accent. There is a particular moment in Oklahoma when summer finally begins to loosen its grip. The evenings get a little cooler, the air smells faintly of woodsmoke, and suddenly everyone seems to have an opinion about pumpkins. But before we surrender entirely to Halloween, there is another fall tradition worth celebrating: **Oktober
