Will Rogers Memorial Museum opened Nov. 4, 1938, three years after the death of the man who remains Oklahoma’s most recognizable native. Thousands of people dotted the hillside of the native limestone Memorial, streets were teeming with horses and floats for a giant parade — and there was gridlock on the highway between Tulsa and […]
Will Rogers never made plans, according to his wife. Betty Rogers wrote in her book “Will Rogers” that “he knew life was uncertain and when he wanted anything he wanted it right away.” Will touted flying as the fastest way to get anyplace as far back as 1926. Will and Wiley Post, pilot and fellow […]
Will Rogers Memorial Museum Lecture Series 2016 Opens with Former Director Steve Gragert, former Will Rogers Memorial executive director, will open the 2016 Milam Lecture Series telling about his August 15, 2015, visit to the site of the plane crash 80 years earlier that claimed the life of Will Rogers and Wiley Post. He is […]
