Youll be hard-pressed to find a bigger cheerleader for the Iola area than Mary Benningfield.
A relative newcomer she and her family moved to Iola about two years ago from her native Tulsa Benningfield compares Iola to a Norman Rockwell scene.
Walking around, seeing the old Victorian houses, older folks on their porches in rocking chairs with lemonade, she said. It was not a hard decision to come to Iola.