Way back in the Dog Creek Hills, just east of Claremore, the song of the truck tires along the Turner Turnpike tends to overwhelm the silence of passing moments.

Even out here in the country.

Can you carry that out to the cart?

Okay, Alieta Gunn.

Doesn’t mind, though.

The 140 acres she lives on is enough of a buffer between traffic and tranquility.

Her granddaughter, Mackenzie, is helping her feed the animals today.

Alieta has always been what she calls a critter person.

I was born on a huge farm, and my brother like the tractor stuff.

And if it wasn't an animal, I wasn't interested.

Whether she owns them or they just fly in for a visit.

Alieta will take care of them.

Offering up something to eat day after day.

Come on tabby.

Well, they're just all God's critters and everyone has to eat.

And we have had snow and ice so many days at a time that things were really hungry at the top of the hill overlooking Alieta’s duck pond.

Her husband, Curtis has some creating to do.

Well, I can do it myself.

I don't have to pay a high price to get it done.

In his welding shop, Curtis Gunn can make whatever he needs.

We have general welding, basically.

Redo it.

You know, if I have to re well, at something breaks I don't have to go to a welding shop.

I can do it.

And a lot of friends come in.

Boy, do they forget the turnpike.

Every Friday and Saturday night, this old half mile long dirt driveway is the busiest road in Rogers County.

That's when Curtis Gunn's welding shop becomes a concert hall and a loosely knit band of buddies everyone calls the Gunn Hill Bunch and takes to the homemade stage.

You never know where they'll come from or how long they'll play or what you play.

They'll just come in and ask, you care if I get on a stage?

And I'll say, no, sir.

Make yourself at home and I hope you enjoy it enough to come back.

They always do.

Guitar pickers and boot scooters every single Saturday night for going on 30 years now.

And we get together and jam because we like to play music.

And it's not a it's not a set format or anything.

If you want to play, you show up and you play.

You know, if they get a spot on the stage to set up and set up, play a little while move over, let somebody else play a little while, you know, if anything, if it's fun, real good musicians from mediocre and from bare, you know, so they all get up there and jam and we all have a pretty good day, you know.

So you see, you know, go the road often.

They'll come from ten mile away or 80 mile away or 100 miles away.

We have one 88 year old lady that drives from Stillwater up here.

Not every night, but just about every Saturday night.

Her name is Mabel Staley.

I like it because they’re so friendly.

They, you know, they just.

They just embrace you.

I'm so here to the benefit.

And I thought I thought was a museum I thought was everything.

And we just.

If you just feel at peace over here is what my father played for dances and places like this.

Don't have enough in the.

Come here and Gina Wilson grew up with a big voice and an even bigger dream to be a singing star.

But she and her musician friends didn't have a place to rehearse in Claremore until Curtis offered the use of his much smaller in those days, welding shop.

We all started going up there on the weekends and just getting together and, as you would say, picking grain, you know?

And from there we started a band from from his house, all of us that went up there and played.

But people started coming and it began to get to where there wasn't enough room.

So he asked us, would we play there if he expanded the building and made a big stage?

And we said, sure, I'm in the middle of a building over here.

The building has been expanded again since then and the stage is bigger too.

Gina doesn't sing professionally anymore.

She's a banker now, but once in a while Curtis can still talk her into coming out.

So it's still fun.

When you hear a song that you know that you think, well, I could do that.

You know, I could do that song.

And it's still fun when people, you see people dancing and having a good time, you know, it's fun.

No one has more fun at a dance.

The Jim and Meredith Jenner they come over every Saturday from Tulsa.

We just kind of have a little fun activity, kind of cheer everybody up.

And here is Hank for good or a bunch of fools, and we don't really care.

Amazingly, all this fun is free.

All Curtis asks is that the ladies act like ladies, and the gentlemen act like gentlemen.

Curtis loves music.

He loves it.

I think he he he loves people.

He loves to meet people.

He loves to talk to people.

And as this started out, you know, as I said, people started, you know, more different people started coming from different places, different musicians.

And he just enjoys visiting with them.

He enjoys people coming to his house.

Most music lovers just go out and buy a stereo.

Curtis Gun stayed home and built a stay.

Away from us for our.