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August 21, 2012

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"How to Find Records in FamilySearch.org

 - for Beginners"

Lunch & Learn Lecture

Sept 26, 2012  10:30am - 1pm

Oklahoma History Center

Oklahoma City, OK
 
 

After a short overview of the FamilySearch.org website with speaker, Donna Waddle, participants will learn how to register for an account, and how to locate birth, death, marriage, and census records. To accomplish this, an obituary will be selected from the Oklahoman and as a class we will follow the trail to the records.

 

This Lunch & Learn is 10:30am to 1:00pm in the Oklahoma History Center classrooms. Registration is $10 per person and lunch is included. Contact the OHS Research Center at (405)522-5225 to register.

Farm Life Exhibition Coming Soon

September 1, 2012 through January 6, 2013

Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center

Enid, OK

 

The twentieth century brought profound changes for farm families and their neighbors. In 1900, 42% of the U.S. population worked in agriculture, but by 2000, less than 2% of the population was involved in farm production. Still, through generations of dramatic economic and social change, some families have maintained their connections to farming, their land, and the rural communities in which they live and work. Why do some families steadfastly hold on to this way of life while others choose to leave? What institutions can they rely on? What new strategies are they using to survive?

 

Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors asks these and many other questions while offering visitors a view into life on a working farm. This exhibition, rather than focusing on the technology of farming, examines what it means for a family to live and work on the land.

 

Farm Life will open on Saturday, September 1, 2012, and run through January 6, 2013. The exhibit is being brought to our community through the generous sponsorship of Field, Trojan, Long & Claypole, P.C.; Trojan Farms, LLC; and David and Sharon Trojan.

 

The Farm Life exhibition has been made possible through NEH on the Road, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The rotation of temporary exhibits is administered through the Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors temporary exhibit was created by The Chippewa Valley Museum, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The exhibit is based on a larger exhibition permanently installed in their galleries.

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Project OKPOP

"Crossroads of Creativity"

Oklahoma Historical Society

by Nicole Harvey, OHS

 

Project OKPOP supports the development of OKPOP, a statewide museum that will feature Oklahoma's creative spirit and the state's own OKPOP stars from music, movies, radio, television and literature. As the nation's "crossroads of creativity," Oklahoma is the best place to preserve our creative culture. 

 

Shawnee - Brad Pitt and Jones Family Theatres

 

Brad Pitt, born in Shawnee, had relatives that made the 1889 Oklahoma Land Run. The family eventually settled in the Shawnee area, where Pitt visits his grandmother. Ironically, Pitt came into national attention with a small part in Thelma and Louise (1991), with a scene set in Oklahoma. He has become one of Hollywood's biggest names, starring in projects such as Interview with a Vampire (1994), Se7en (1995), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), and Troy(2004). Brad has been nominated for three acting Oscars for 12 Monkeys (1995), Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and Moneyball (2011) and one producing Oscar for Moneyball.

 

The Jones family of Shawnee was a huge player in the early theater development of the town. Jake Jones bought the Cozy Theatre, later renamed the Ritz in 1913. By 1927, he built the Criterion and went on to purchase the Savoy Theatre in 1935, renaming it the State. In 1943, his children, Johnny and Ruby, bought the Odeon and renamed it the Jake in honor of their father. Many of the Jones family theatres are still open and run by the family to this day.

 
Learn more about Project OKPOP...

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Oklahoma Historical Society

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Oklahoma City, OK  73105

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OHS EVENTS   

9/28 Living History Event, 10am, (918)478-4088

9/15 Celebration Tea & Open House, 1pm, (580)336-2405

9/14  Frontier Festival Lantern Tour, 7pm to 10pm, (580)237-1907

  

9/15  Frontier Festival, 1pm to 5pm, (580)237-1907
 

8/25 Fifes and Drums Practice, 10am, (918)478-4088

10/12 Fall Encampment, 10am, (918)478-4088

8/30  WWII and the Movies: The Combat Soldier on the Big Screen, 7pm, (405)522-0785

 

9/8 Septemberfest, 10am, (405)522-0785

 

Pawnee Bill Ranch:

9/15 Primitive Bow-Making Workshop, 9am, (918)762-2513

 

9/23 Civil War Quilt Seminar, 2pm, (918)762-2513

 

Pioneer Woman Museum: 

9/8  Rise & Shine Gentle Yoga, 7am, (580)765-6108

 

Sod House Museum:

9/8 Quilting Workshop, 9am, (580)463-2441

 

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center:

9/22 Autumnal Equinox Walks, 11am, (918)962-2062

The Importance of History...

"History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days."

 

Winston Churchill

Oklahoma
 Historical Society 
800 Nazih Zuhdi Dr.
Oklahoma City, OK 
 73105
  

 Shelly Crynes, Editor

[email protected] 
(405)522-0317