Family Fun
By: Catherine Heimdale | Category: Recreation/Leisure | Issue: October 2024
Family fun is on the calendar at the Will Rogers Museum in Claremore.
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Will’s Country Christmas Celebrates the Season, Harkens Back to Simpler Times
By: Tom Fink | Category: Recreation/Leisure | Issue: November 2019
Will’s Country Christmas is an annual holiday celebration which harkens back to simpler times, giving the young and the young at heart alike the chance to see how the Rogers family might have celebrated the festive Christmas season. This family-friendly event will be held Friday, Dec. 6 and Saturday, Dec. 7 at the Birthplace Ranch in Oologah and will include the Wild West Hayride, Wild West reenactors, the Tri-State Gunfighters, who will be staging a “Christmas-themed” shootout. Learn more at ValueNews.com.
Birthday Bash
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.
A New Dimension For Visitors
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.
Christmas is Coming
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.
Halloween is Spooktacular
By: Pat Reeder | Category: Rogers County | Issue: October 2017
A Night at the Museum Returns for Halloween!
Will Rogers Birthday Bash
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.
Will & Wiley: Flying into Oologah
By: Amy Beth Dobbins | Category: Rogers County | Issue: July 2017
Will Rogers & Wiley Post Fly-In Saturday, August 12, 2017 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (Gates open at 7:30 a.m.) Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch 9501 E. 380 Rd., Oologah, OK
Will Rogers Days Plans Expansion
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.
Flying Into New Traditions with Hometown Heroes
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.
Museum Spring Break On Tap March 14-18
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.
Volunteering for Will
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.
Will’s Country Christmas
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.
Paintings of An American Legend
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.
Become a Roper
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.
Kids Relive History at Frontier Days Kid Camp
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.
Claremore School Greenhouse Growing Green
By: Value News | Category: Lawn & Garden | Issue: June 2015
A Claremore school greenhouse, that stood unused two or three years, is now getting a good workout.
Back to His Roots with Will
By: Value News | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: May 2015
Beau Jennings has a history in Rogers County, but spread his wings to New York, where he was all set to make a new album about his Brooklyn experiences.His plans took a …
Santa Claus is Coming to Will Rogers Memorial Museum
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.
Former Lawmaker To Lead Will Rogers Memorial Museums
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.
Ropers Share Will’s Passion for Flying
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.
Will You Run?
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.…
Celebrate Oklahoma’s Favorite Son
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…
Welcome to Our World
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.
Plane Fun
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.
Love Will Rogers? Become a Roper
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: July 2012
Visitors come from all over the world to Will Rogers Memorial Museum.
Saddle Up for Fun
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.
Missing Annual Fly-In Will Not Fly
By: Sheryl Sowell | Category: Special Interest | Issue: August 2011
Will Rogers and Wiley Post are two legendary Oklahomans who helped pioneer the field of aviation.
Letters From the Heart
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…
Recruiting Ropers
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…
Fly-In to Honor Will Rogers and Wiley Post
By: Sheryl Sowell | Category: Recreation/Leisure | Issue: August 2010
Will Rogers and Wiley Post are two legendary Oklahomans who helped pioneer the field of aviation.
Friends of Will Rogers Docent Program
By: Pat Reeder | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: June 2008
Friends of Will Rogers will soon be taking on a new meaning.
Will Rogers Days
By: Carol Beck-Round | Category: In Our Communities | Issue: November 2007
Organized by the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, Will Rogers Days is set for November 2 through 4. The annual celebration marks the birth of the famous Oklahoman.
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