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Our World – Road Trip to See the Will Rogers Memorial Museum

SuperPizzaBoy and I took another mini road trip Saturday.

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First up was his riding lessons in Ramona, in Phillips 66 and Pioneer Woman territory. After that we drove over to Claremore, Oklahoma.

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Home of the Will Rogers Memorial Museum. Will Rogers (1879-1935 was born nearby to a prominent Cherokee Indian Family (the guy at the front desk said, with a twinkle in his eye, that Rogers was a “spoiled rich kid.”) Will Rogers was a big celebrity way back when, he starred in movies, vaudeville, radio and wrote a newspaper column carried nationwide.

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He had a down home, good natured, style and he could poke fun at everybody, politicians of both sides, corporate bosses, union bosses, gangsters, generals and nobody would take offense.

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The museum has lots of relics, statues, paintings, posters, and other artwork of his life and times but what is the most fun is that they show his various movies, shorts, and radio broadcasts. Listening and watching those make you realize just how special he was. He was down home alright but also a very smart and well versed man.

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So if you go, plan on taking some time and sitting in a theater and a scene or two from his movies. Watch a news conference, listen to a radio broadcast.

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He was a common sense guy with a sense of humor.

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The museum has a children’s area down in the basemenet with a western town, interactive videos, and all sorts of information.

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All in all we had a great time

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RIP Will Rogers

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ABC Wednesday – “W” is for …

This week’s letter is “W.” “W” matches two of Oklahoma’s home state heroes.

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Who doesn’t love Will Rogers. Could he poke holes in windbags or what? In a nice way of course.

#woodie #guthrie exhibit at #central_library #tulsa - this machine kills fascists

And speaking of poking holes in windbags, how about Woody Guthrie?  People still get riled up about him in Oklahoma. I wonder what he would think of the tea party?

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