Jim Garling

By Bryan Painter | Published: October 3, 2008
BRENNA NIXON: "Cowboy Jim" Garling strums his guitar, teaching Brenna (cq) Nixon and Jennifer Crow the art of yodeling at the Choctaw Land Run Festival in Choctaw Creek Park Thursday,  April 17, 2008. Both girls attend Piedmont Middle School.      BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN ORG XMIT: KOD
BRENNA NIXON: "Cowboy Jim" Garling strums his guitar, teaching Brenna (cq) Nixon and Jennifer Crow the art of yodeling at the Choctaw Land Run Festival in Choctaw Creek Park Thursday, April 17, 2008. Both girls attend Piedmont Middle School. BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN ORG XMIT: KOD

GUTHRIE — Jim Garling sits on the front porch of his Guthrie home strumming an acoustic guitar to cowboy tunes and watching the red foxes run from the cover of the trees across to the pond. This is retirement.

For more than 15 years, Jim and his wife Doris Garling owned the RV General Store, an RV dealership in Norman. But for about four years, Garling was driving from Norman to Guthrie once a week to teach fiddle and guitar lessons at the Double Stop Fiddle Shop. Internationally-known musician Byron Berline has brought a lot of music interest to Guthrie, and those interests often gather at the Double Stop Fiddle Shop.

The Garlings thought, what if instead of driving to Guthrie, we move there? About five years ago they did.

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