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May 2025
Cake with Kate: Kate Barnard 150th Anniversary Celebration
On Saturday, May 24, at 1 p.m., the Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Historic Carnegie Library will host an Anniversary Celebration for Kate Barnard’s 150th birthday. Annette Wisk Jacobi, executive director of the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth, will be the guest speaker at the event. She will discuss her work for the commission and Barnard’s influence on her career. Birthday cake and refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. Kate Barnard was the…
Find out more »July 2025
Honey Springs Battlefield Memorial Service
Honey Springs Battlefield will hold its annual memorial service on Saturday, July 19, at 10:30 a.m., to honor the 162nd anniversary of the Battle of Honey Springs near Checotah. The service commemorates the largest of approximately 107 documented Civil War military engagements throughout Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. The engagement took place at the Honey Springs settlement, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, on July 17, 1863, just two weeks after the famous Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg. Approximately 9,000 Union and Confederate…
Find out more »August 2025
Wreath laying and flyover
To commemorate the death of Will Rogers, commonly referred to as Oklahoma’s Favorite Son, the Will Rogers Memorial Museum will host a wreath-laying at the tomb on Friday, August 8, at noon. Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post were killed in a plane crash on August 15, 1935, in Point Barrow, Alaska. Upon hearing the news, then-president Franklin Roosevelt said, “I was shocked to hear of the tragedy which has taken Will Rogers and Wiley Post from us. Will was…
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