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...

Co-hosts Brother T.S. Akers and Greg Mashburn continue the special limited-series "Traveling East", discussing the growth of Freemasonry in Indian Territory in what eventually became Oklahoma. In this chat, we find out just h...

Tobi Ledbetter is a "Bored Okie"; in fact, that's the name of her business. After years of working for others promoting businesses, organizations and events, she opened her own business with her daughter and together, they de...

Episode 1 in a special series on The Occasional Podcaster. My co-host for this limited series is Brother T.S. Akers, a historian and Freemason. Over the next several episodes of the program, we will explore the introduction o...