By: Pat Reeder | Category: Rogers County | Issue: December 2021
“Life Begins at Forty” was released April 4, 1935, four months before Will Rogers’ death. Three New York newspaper critics gave him good marks. His hometown critics can have their say after a New Year’s Eve showing and party following on Dec. 31 in the Will Rogers Memorial Museum Theatre.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Rogers County | Issue: May 2021
Will’s Wild West Kids Camp will take on a new format this year with three days of activities at the Will Rogers Memorial June 21-23. Hands-on projects will help children, ages 5-12, how to relate life on the western frontier in the time of Will Rogers, born in 1879.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Rogers County | Issue: October 2019
Will Rogers Motion Picture Festival will be coming to Claremore October 30 through November 2, with categories including College Shorts, Made in Oklahoma, American Indian/First Nation/Indigenous, Documentary, Narrative, Comedy and Children’s. There will be lots of activities throughout the Festival including a Kick-Off event, lectures, after parties, lots of movies to watch at different venues around Claremore and the Dog Irons Award Ceremony on November 2nd at the Will Rogers Auditorium on the Rogers State University campus. Read more details about the event in the October 2019 edition of VALUES News Magazine and at ValueNews.com.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Education | Issue: September 2019
The Will Rogers Memorial Museum has announced Stephanie Hunter as the new activities and education manager. Stephanie has been part of the museum staff since 2015 and has immersed herself in not only Will Rogers’ lore but also traditions of the times of his birth and childhood on an Indian Territory ranch. Stephanie and her team of “Hands-on Historians” will plan and host events such as the recent Will Rogers & Wiley Post Fly-In as well as teach demonstrations at the museum, such as old-fashioned butter churning, candle making, weaving, and more. Learn more in the September 2019 edition of VALUES News Magazine and at ValueNews.com.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Recreation/Leisure | Issue: October 2018
Will Rogers Birthday Bash Nov. 1-4 continues the year of events that have paid tribute to his movie career and his Nov. 4, 1879 birth on an Indian Territory Ranch. The focus will continue to create a movie atmosphere in Claremore with memories of individual favorite movies, according to Tad Jones, Will Rogers Memorial Museum executive director.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Recreation/Leisure | Issue: August 2018
Bring your lawn chairs and watch pilots from around the country come in over Oologah Lake and from all directions to celebrate aviation in the heartland. The Will Rogers & Wiley Post Fly-In marks the 83rd anniversary of the Aug. 15, 1935 Alaska crash that claimed the lives of the world’s most noted aviation enthusiasts of their time.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Education | Issue: June 2018
You are about to enter into a new dimension. An “Enhanced Tour” of Will Rogers Memorial Museums brings a new level of reality or information to visiting the Claremore Memorial and Oologah Birthplace Ranch.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Rogers County | Issue: November 2017
Christmas, as it might have been celebrated at the Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch in Will’s childhood, will be recreated in the third annual Will’s Country Christmas.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Rogers County | Issue: October 2017
A Night at the Museum Returns for Halloween!
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Rogers County | Issue: October 2017
The Claremore Museum of History and Gazebo Park will set the scene for the Will Rogers’ Birthday Bash at the end of the Nov. 4 parade through Claremore down Will Rogers Blvd.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: October 2016
Will Rogers Memorial Museum opened Nov. 4, 1938, three years after the death of the man who still remains Oklahoma’s most recognizable native.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: July 2016
It’s been 81 years since Will Rogers and Wiley Post died in an Alaska plane crash. News of the crash on Aug. 15, 1935 remains a historic tragedy felt worldwide, but no place more stunned than Oologah, the town where Will was born of and the home place where he lived as a boy.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: February 2016
Spring Break 2016 activities will be at both the Will Rogers Memorial Museum and Birthplace Ranch this year March 14-18. Exciting events are being planned for Monday through Friday, said Bart Taylor, Museum assistant curator for education.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: January 2016
A new class of Will Rogers Ropers, volunteers at Will Rogers Memorial Museums, officially ended their training and received their badges of honor and red bandana neckerchiefs in early December. It was just in time for two days of volunteering for Will’s Country Christmas, a first-ever holiday event at Will’s Birthplace Ranch.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: December 2015
Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch near Oologah will come alive with Christmas holiday lore and activities on Friday and Saturday, December 11 and 12. “Will’s Country Christmas” hours will be from 6 to 9 p.m.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: November 2015
The original Mike Wimmer oil paintings from Governor Frank Keating’s book “Will Rogers: An American Legend” have been relocated to the entry gallery of Will Rogers Memorial Museum. Call it serendipity or a home run.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: August 2015
Will Rogers and Wiley Post died in an Alaska plane crash on August 15, 1935. It is often called the “crash heard around the world.” This year the Will Rogers & Wiley Post Fly-In at the Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch will be Saturday, August 15, the 80th anniversary of the history-making event, when bold headlines in newspapers all over the world carried the story.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: August 2015
Volunteers are an active part of the mission of Will Rogers Memorial Museums’ daily operations and programs. A training program for a new class of Will Rogers Ropers, the name chosen for volunteers who wear a bandana kerchief, will begin September 3. Classes will meet each Thursday through November 12 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The graduation celebration will be November 19.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: July 2015
Kids can experience life in the 1880s, when Will Rogers was growing up on an Indian Territory family ranch, this summer.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: December 2014
Santa Claus will visit the Will Rogers Memorial Museum three Saturdays in December when admission will be free to all.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: October 2014
Something new has been added to the four-day Will Rogers Days, marking the November 4, 1879 birthday of Will Rogers and the 1938 opening of the Will Rogers Memoria…
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: July 2014
Tad Jones, former Rogers County legislator, will take the reins as Will Rogers Memorial Museums director, replacing retiring Steve Gragert.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Recreation/Leisure | Issue: August 2013
Joe Bacon, Martha Swartz and Tom Egbert are new-found friends with a common bond. They are fans of Will Rogers; all are Will Rogers Memorial Museum Ropers (docents). And they love flying.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: April 2013
It’s time to lace up the running shoes for the 4th annual Will Rogers Memorial Race, which will take runners through the scenic Rogers State University Nature Reserve.…
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: October 2012
Four days of activities are planned November 1-4, to celebrate the 133rd birthday of Will Rogers, acclaimed Oklahoma’s Favorite Son, a prolific writer, top movie and s…
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: September 2012
A new class of Ropers (docent volunteers) at the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore will begin training Thursday, September 6.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Recreation/Leisure | Issue: August 2012
Will Rogers was an actor, writer, trick roper and rancher. At the time of his death, he was all these and undoubtedly the world’s most avid aviation booster.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: July 2012
Visitors come from all over the world to Will Rogers Memorial Museum.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: May 2012
Bill John Baker, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, will be a special guest of the 113-year-old Indian Women’s Pocahontas Club at the club’s annual picnic Satur…
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Recreation/Leisure | Issue: November 2011
Will Rogers Memorial Museum opened November 4, 1938 in what is still considered one of the biggest events in Claremore’s history.
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Special Interest | Issue: July 2011
“Letters From the Heart: Betty and Will Rogers” brings to life for the first time the delightful early 1900s courtship correspondence of Will Rogers and his wife Bet…
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Special Interest | Issue: July 2011
Spend a few hours a month with the opportunity to meet people from all over the world and at the same time share the life, wisdom and humor of Will Rogers.A new class of…
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: June 2008
Friends of Will Rogers will soon be taking on a new meaning.
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