Applause For Claus

Michael Harris has been making Duncan children’s holidays merry and bright for two decades.

Trisha Bunce

IN HIS PREVIOUS life, Michael Harris ran a graphic design and ad agency in Nashville creating album covers for musicians. But thirty-one years ago, it was time to come home.

“Oklahoma is in my blood,” he says. “You can find anything you want here. You want rivers? We have rivers. You want mountains? We got those. You can find anything here, but I love the plains and the openness. I went outside one day after we came back and found my son—then six—lying spread-eagle in the front yard. ‘Dad! I can see the whole sky!’”