Downtowners Enjoy Busy Month Of Activities In Oklahoma City

BY TIM FALL, For The OklahomanAfter 15 years in Chicago, Conor and Annie Maynard knew they liked the pedestrian urban lifestyle: walking to work, to their favorite restaurant, to the dry cleaners. David McKenzie, an attorney with Mulinix Edwards Rozelle and Goerke, said he is happiest when he goes two or three weeks without getting behind the wheel of his car. Lee Peoples, a professor at Oklahoma City University’s School of Law, does “a lot of cycling” and said that if not for having to pick up and drop off his 11-year-old daughter all over town, “we’d be down to one car.” What do they have in common — besides a declared dislike for driving? They’re all downtowners, staunch advocates of living, working and socializing between NW 10 and the Oklahoma River. This month, there’s plenty to keep downtowners at home and to draw residents from all across the metro area to the city’s burgeoning urban core. June is packed with attractions and events such as last weekend’s Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival at Cox Convention Center and the Rock the Boat Festival on the Bricktown Canal, and this weekend’s deadCenter Film Festival at several venues downtown. At the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, “Faberge: Jeweler to the Tsars,” a three-month exhibition of rare jewelry, renowned Faberge eggs and other luxurious objets d’art, opens June 20.Read more on NewsOK.com