The Pioneer Woman Museum and Pioneer Genealogical Society will be cohosting a workshop on genealogy resources available through the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) on Saturday, March 7, at 11 a.m. in the basement education room at the Ponca City Library. The workshop presenter will be Laura Martin, deputy director of the Research Division of the OHS. A meet and greet will begin at 10:30 a.m. As there is limited seating, reservations are required. To reserve a seat or for more information, visit the museum's Facebook page, call 580-765-6108 or email piown@okhistory.org.

Pioneer Genealogical Society was organized in 1971 in Ponca City. A variety of topics are presented at its monthly meetings, which take place throughout the year except during the summertime. For more information about the Pioneer Genealogical Society, visit www.pgsok.org

The Oklahoma Territorial Museum will host a talk on Paul Kroeger, Oklahoma's second poet laureate and a former citizen of Guthrie, and Jennie Harris Oliver, Oklahoma's third poet laureate and a former citizen of Fallis, on Thursday, February 26, at 6:30 p.m. The event is made possible by a grant from the Oklahoma Humanities Council.

The talk will be given by Dr. Shawn Holliday, the associate dean of graduate studies at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, whose book on the Oklahoma poets laureate is forthcoming from Mongrel Empire Press. It is part of a series of talks Holliday is giving entitled "The Oklahoma Poets Laureate: Learning about the State Through Its Poetry." Holliday intends to use these talks to inform citizens about the history of the Oklahoma poets laureate. He also hopes that this series will help communities to preserve regional history and local memory.

The presentation format will include a brief history of the Oklahoma poet laureate position, biographical information on Kroeger and Oliver, a discussion of their relationship to Guthrie and Fallis, and a brief reading of their work followed by a discussion of their poetry. Holliday's talk on Kroeger and Oliver is the third in the series. Later talks will occur in Claremore and Wewoka.

For more information on the event, readers may contact Holliday at 580-327-8589 or at spholliday@nwosu.edu. The Oklahoma Territorial Museum is located at 406 E. Oklahoma Ave. in Guthrie.