So during the Holiday Break we went up to Tulsa to visit family. While there we stopped at "The Outsider House" where they filmed the movie adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders. The house was rescued from demolition a couple of years ago and turned into a museum.
The Outsiders is a beloved novel read in junior highs and high schools across the country. But I always felt a deeper connection because my Dad actually went to high school with Hinton. My Mom lived just a couple of miles from the neighborhood depicted in the book and movie. They both went to Will Rogers High School where the characters in the novel went. The movie was filmed in Tulsa and I grew up visiting many of the film's sites whenever we came to visit both sets of my grandparents and uncles and aunts who lived in Tulsa.
So it was pretty cool to see this place. The museum is only open on the weekends and were there in the middle of the week so we didn't get to inside the Outsiders House. But it was still pretty cool to see the place.
