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OHS Annual Meeting Plans Announced

April 18 - 20, 2012

Miami, OK

The Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society is scheduled for April 18, 19, and 20 in Miami, Oklahoma, Annual Meeting Committee Chair Leonard Logan has announced. All of the program sessions and evening events will take place at the elegant Coleman Theatre, while the luncheons on Thursday and Friday will be

Coleman Theatre

staged in the Bruce Carter Student Center on the campus of Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College.

To alleviate any problems with parking or finding the venues, shuttle bus transportation will be provided from the convention hotels to the Coleman Theater and to the luncheons at NEO.

The theme of the annual meeting this year is "Crossroads of Creativity: The Impact of Oklahoma on Popular Culture." Festivities will begin Wednesday evening with a Coffeehouse Concert at the Coleman Theatre featuring Mason Williams and a host of outstanding musicians who were prominent in the folk music scene as experienced in coffeehouses in Oklahoma and throughout the nation in the 1950s,

Mason Williams

1960s, and early 1970s. More details on the concert will be provided in subsequent issues of OHS EXTRA!.

Program sessions on Thursday, April 19, and Friday, April 20, will feature presentations on topics such as "The Image of American Indians in Movies and Popular Culture, Images of Oklahoma in Popular Culture, Oklahomans and the Visual Arts, The Coffeehouse Era in Oklahoma, Impact of Oklahomans on Images of the American West, Music and Folklore from the Oklahoma Oil Patch, Oklahomans Who Have Impacted the Popular Culture of the United States, Music Festivals and Circuses in Rural Oklahoma, Oklahoma's Contributions to Jazz and Blues, Oklahoma Authors and Cartoonists, and The Tulsa Drummers.

The Annual Membership Luncheon on April 19 will feature Mason Williams as the Keynote Speaker. Thursday evening will feature "An Evening of Elegance at the Coleman Theatre," while the Annual Awards Luncheon will take place on Friday.

A letter of invitation with registration form and hotel information will be sent to all OHS members in the near future. Non-members may register at a higher cost. Anyone wishing to receive a registration form via email may do so by emailing their request to Paul Lambert at plambert@okhistory.org.