Felix Skowronek, a professor of flute at the University of Washington since 1968 and a founding member of the Soni Ventorum Woodwind Quintet, died Monday night of throat cancer. He was 70. "He was the ...

OKMULGEE — While his family waits in the car, Nelson Harjo disappears into a stand of bamboo, the green stalks reaching far above his head. He moves, like the sun, east to west, listening to the wind ...