Upcoming Events › Programs and lectures
Events List Navigation
May 2021
On the Peak Lecture (virtual)
Join Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum on Facebook Live for an On the Peak Lecture. Lectures are held on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month from noon to 1 p.m. Visit www.facebook.com/pawneebillranch to learn more and view the lecture.
Find out more »Tea and Talk at Horizon Hill: Women and Wild West Shows
Please join us at the Chisholm Trail Museum on Saturday, May 15, for the Museum’s Tea and Talk at Horizon Hill. The program will be 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Guests will be treated to a variety of traditional teas and snacks on the lawn at Horizon Hill, Territorial Governor A. J. Seay’s home. During the event, Dr. Alyce Webb will speak on the topic of Women and Wild West Shows. Registration is $15 per person and space is limited.…
Find out more »Thursday Night Lecture Series featuring John Wooley
Will Rogers Memorial Museum is launching a return of the Thursday Night Lecture Series! Lectures are scheduled for May 20, June 17, July 15, and September 16 in the museum auditorium. Programs will begin at 7 p.m. and will include time for questions and answers with speakers. John Wooley, who co-hosts RSU-TV’s Film Noir Theatre with Ana Berry, will open Lecture Series on May 20. Wooley will share stories about this season’s Film Noir Theatre, which began in February and…
Find out more »On the Peak Lecture (virtual)
Join Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum on Facebook Live for an On the Peak Lecture. Lectures are held on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month from noon to 1 p.m. Visit www.facebook.com/pawneebillranch to learn more and view the lecture.
Find out more »“The Diary of a Union Soldier from Kansas,” presentation by Professor Tom Wing (virtual)
Honey Springs Battlefield will host a virtual lecture, “The Diary of a Union Soldier from Kansas,” on Saturday, May 29, at 2 p.m. CST. Tom Wing, assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith and author of the book entitled ‘A Rough Introduction to This Sunny Land’: The Civil War Diary of Private Henry A. Strong, Co. K, Twelfth Kansas Infantry, will speak about the experiences of Private Henry Strong during the Civil War in present-day Oklahoma. Participants…
Find out more »June 2021
Bitter Root panel discussion (on-site and virtual)
To commemorate the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, OKPOP and the Greenwood Cultural Center are partnering to host a panel discussion focusing on the award-winning Bitter Root comic book series on Wednesday, June 2, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The panelists will include the writers, artist, and editor of Bitter Root, published by Image Comics. The program will open with words from Dr. Stevie Johnson, educator with the Bob Dylan Archive, and Mechelle Brown, program director for the Greenwood…
Find out more »Thursday Night Lecture Series featuring Mike Martin
Will Rogers Memorial Museum is launching a return of the Thursday Night Lecture Series! Lectures are scheduled for May 20, June 17, July 15, and September 16 in the museum auditorium. Programs will begin at 7 p.m. and will include time for questions and answers with speakers. Mike Martin from Magnolia, Texas, will present “Dust Bowl George’s Boutique Wineshop” on June 17. Martin will share the story of a young man who left Oklahoma for California during the Dust Bowl…
Find out more »“Genealogy of Marshal McCully” presentation
Visit the Sod House Museum on Saturday, June 19, at 10 a.m., for a program focusing on its builder, Marshal McCully. Professor Jana Brown of Northwestern Oklahoma State University (NWOSU) will present McCully’s family history, tracing his genealogy back to the pre–Revolutionary War era. Brown has worked with the Sod House Museum for several years as a volunteer. In the summer of 2019, she began researching the family history of Marshal McCully. The migration of the McCully family is similar…
Find out more »July 2021
Thursday Night Lecture Series featuring Tom Lindley
Will Rogers Memorial Museum is launching a return of the Thursday Night Lecture Series! Lectures are scheduled for May 20, June 17, July 15, and September 16 in the museum auditorium. Programs will begin at 7 p.m. and will include time for questions and answers with speakers. The program on July 15 will take a look at the man who returned Will Rogers to Broadway. Our speaker will be Tom Lindley, author and former newsman, who published To the Max:…
Find out more »September 2021
Thursday Night Lecture Series featuring Jim Bridenstine
Will Rogers Memorial Museum is launching a return of the Thursday Night Lecture Series! Lectures are scheduled for May 20, June 17, July 15, and September 16 in the museum auditorium. Programs will begin at 7 p.m. and will include time for questions and answers with speakers. Jim Bridenstine, whose career in politics paved the way for an appointment as NASA director, will speak on September 16. Bridenstine was a navy aviator and private pilot, and one-time executive director of…
Find out more »