The 2025 HOPE Summit is only a few weeks away. Focusing on helping our community to be better informed about potential trauma and how to respond, The Hope Summit will offer a day of sessions, resources and networking for inte...
In just a few weeks time, the Founders’s Place Historical District of Muskogee will host an event sure to bring some color to us all . . . not to mention a little barbecue ! the Founder’s garden tours, also knowns as “Backya...
Muskogee's Three Rivers Museum is tasked to “preserve our past and promote our future”. One way the museum does that is with its annual celebration of Bass Reeves; a territorial marshal for many years based out of Fort Smith ...
Jonita Mullins is a well-known and respected author, newspaper columnist, historian, public speaker and, we are honored to say, a good friend and welcome guest on our podcast. Jonita has recently published her seventeenth boo...
Today we chat with local author Rikisha Morgan Harrison. She has created what she hopes will become a yearly event… the Muskogee Area Author Expo; happening June 21st at Northeastern State University's Muskogee campus. It is...
We chat with Patricia Ridge-Bradley and Becky Lucht, both members of MAG… the Muskogee Art Guild. MAG is preparing for it’s annual spring fundraiser, the Black and White Art Show, as well as making preparations for the guild...
This time around we visit with Tourism Spokesman Nick Schafer about summer events in Fort Gibson, including the upcoming return of "Old Fort Days" on May 9th and 10th.
On this episode, we visit with Brad Rickleman, the assistant director of Meridian Technology Center in Stillwater. Here, early on in 2025, we are seeing a new administration; a new financial picture and more and more of us ar...
On this episode, we visit with Derrick Reed and Pastor David Ragsdale representing Muskogee’s Martin Luther King Center. Plans are approaching completion for the observance of MLK Day on January 20th with food, music some pr...
On this episode, we visit with Bryce Marshall; he is the Director of the newly-created “Film Muskogee” a city entity devoted to attracting major movie projects to Muskogee . There is a movement towards the creation of “movie-...
On this episode, we visit with Patricia Ridge Bradley and fellow MAG member Todd Jones about the upcoming Muskogee Art Guild Fall Open Show and Sale, running from November 14th thru the 22nd with the exhibition open to the pu...
We visit with Executive Director Kathy Seibold and Marketing Manager Wendy Burton from the Eastern Oklahoma Library System. We'll discuss plans for an upcoming fundraiser for the Muskogee Public Library to update, repair, re...
MAG president Leah Hays and art camp director Jamie Triplett visit with us about Summer Art Camps For Kids, with several different sessions scheduled throughout the last three weeks of July. Topics include Art in Mexican Cult...
The 14th annual Bass Reeves Western History Conference, sponsored by Muskogee's Three Rivers Museum is scheduled for mid-June. In this episode, we visit with museum director Angie Rush about the conference and other events ha...
We visit with Sharon Ray, whom along with her husband Oscar, founded Oklahoma's premiere independent film festival just over 25 years ago in Muskogee, Oklahoma. With participants from around the world, the festival can proudl...
Two interviews in this episode! First, we visit with local historian and author Jonita Mullins about her new book, a collection of articles, stories and columns about Ft. Gibson in advance of the celebration of that community...
The Occasional Podcaster introduces you to a new friend and colleague; Elvira Smith. From her arrival in Oklahoma in the mid '80's to her work today here in Muskogee as a Spanish instructor for the Muskogee public schools, El...
My guests this time around are Fort Gibson Historic Site Director Jennifer Frazee and Author and Historian Jonita Mullins. We discuss the opening of the historic fort at what is now the Northeastern Oklahoma community of Fort...
This time around, we visit with Bryan Harris, representing Paradigm Shift as well as a second group, Muskogee Young Professionals. Paradigm Shift offers leadership development for secondary students from 6th to 12 grade, coll...
In the final episode of this special limited series, co-hosts Greg Mashburn and T.S. Akers wrap up the story of Freemasonry in Indian Territory with a discussion of the "appendant bodies" of the craft; such as the Scottish Ri...
In the 3rd installment of this special limited series of programs, co-hosts T.S. Akers and Greg Mashburn discuss the influence of Freemasonry in Oklahoma; specifically Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory as they merged to...
