Oak Cameras & Photo Equipment

MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) – A large oak tree that played a key role near the end of The Shawshank Redemption was heavily damaged during a storm last week. The 1994 movie was filmed in and around the former Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield in north-central Ohio. The tree is where Morgan Freeman’s character finds money […]

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) –There’s no place like home. At least for the curators—past and present—of Rowan Oak. At the kickoff for the 38th annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, past curators Howard Bahr, Keith Fudge and Cynthia Shearer joined current curator Bill Griffith to share their stories of William Faulkner’s famous home, Rowan Oak, from the […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A giant live oak tree that has stood at Laguna Gloria’s Driscoll Villa in Austin for more than 200 years is coming down, doomed by an incurable fungal disease. The Austin Museum of Art’s Laguna Gloria site director, Judith Sims, tells the Austin American-Statesman that the museum has spent $21,000 trying […]