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May 23, 2013

Little House on the Prairie Museum Plans Prairie Days 2013 News Photo - Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Little House on the Prairie Museum Plans Prairie Days 2013

The Kansas prairie will come to life with living history reenactors, music, entertainment and the sounds of laughter at the annual Prairie Days celebration at Little House on the Prairie Museum on Saturday, June 8th, 2013 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The homestead of the Charles Ingalls family from 1869-1871, the museum features a replica cabin, the historic Wayside Post Office and Sunnyside One Room Schoolhouse. The grounds of the museum site will feature living history reenactors bringing the 19th century world of Laura...

May 23, 2013

Price Tower EGGstravaganza Over Easy News Photo - Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Price Tower EGGstravaganza Over Easy

(Bartlesville, Okla.)  Design. Create. Drop. Price Tower Arts Center, located at 510 Dewey Avenue , is hosting its free 5th Annual EGGstravaganza on June 15 from 10am to 12pm. The challenge is for an individual or team to design a structure that will protect an egg during its drop from the 10th floor balcony of Price Tower.   “This will not be an easy task as they will need to hit the target on the ground and keep their egg from breaking,” said Lori Esser, marketing and development director. ...

May 22, 2013

Frank Lloyd Wright's Samara: A Mid-Century Dream Home News Photo - Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Frank Lloyd Wright's Samara: A Mid-Century Dream Home

“I believe a house is more a home by being a work of Art.” Frank Lloyd Wright, The Natural House, 1954 Friday May 17, Price Tower Arts Center opened Frank Lloyd Wright’s Samara: A Mid Century Dream Home. . The 1950s were a time when the notion of hiring an architect to design your dream home was still a possibility for a middle income family. Kay and John Christian truly enjoyed the dream home Frank Lloyd Wright created for them. It was comfortable enough to lead a private lifestyle and raise...

February 19, 2013

CRIME STOPPERS EVENT LOCATION CHANGED News Photo - Bartlesville, Oklahoma

CRIME STOPPERS EVENT LOCATION CHANGED

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:      Charlie Taraboletti 918-331-8241   CRIME STOPPERS EVENT LOCATION CHANGED Crime Stoppers of Bartlesville and Washington County has changed the location of Friday night’s Harlem Ambassadors game.  The fund-raiser basketball game has been moved from the previously-announced Mueller Sports Complex on the Oklahoma Wesleyan University campus to the gym at Wesleyan Christian School.  According to Crime Stoppers Board of Directors...

February 14, 2013

Frank Phillips Home Hosts Book Signing February 23rd News Photo - Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Frank Phillips Home Hosts Book Signing February 23rd

Bartlesville—If Bartlesville’s Walls Could Talk, the new book portraying early families who settled in Bartlesville along with their historic homes, is flying off the shelves of the Frank Phillips Home, according to Kim Goss of the Frank Phillips Home.       To reward buyers of the book, the Home is hosting a book signing party on Saturday, February 23, 2013, from 1 to 4 p.m., and invites the public to attend. Written by Barbara Garrison, Vicki Stewart and Debbie Neece, the book...

February 13, 2013

HARLEM AMBASSADORS TOUR News Photo - Bartlesville, Oklahoma

HARLEM AMBASSADORS TOUR

The internationally-acclaimed Harlem Ambassadors will be visiting Bartlesville for a game at Oklahoma Wesleyan University’s Mueller Sports Complex on Friday, February 22ndat 7:00 P.M. The Harlem Ambassadors offer a unique brand of Harlem-style basketball, featuring high-flying slam dunks, dazzling ball-handling tricks and hilarious comedy routines. The Ambassadors feature non-stop laughs and deliver a positive message for kids wherever the Ambassadors play. “At our shows, we want the kids to know that...

January 28, 2013

OK MOZART ANNOUNCES NEXT IN SERIES OF HOUSE CONCERTS News Photo - Bartlesville, Oklahoma

OK MOZART ANNOUNCES NEXT IN SERIES OF HOUSE CONCERTS

Pokey LaFarge and South City Three Will Be Featured on March 17   Bartlesville, Ok – While the luck of the Irish is usually the St. Patrick’s Day theme, Bartlesville music lovers will celebrate the festive holiday with uniquely American sounds as OK Mozart and Original Artist Agency again join forces to bring the next in their lively series of house concerts to downtown Bartlesville.    This one will feature noted American folk artists, Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, a band whose last...

January 28, 2013

Free Green Country 2013 Travel Publications Available Now News Photo - Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Free Green Country 2013 Travel Publications Available Now

   Northeastern Oklahoma’s Sources for Attractions, Events, Coupons Some of the state’s finest travel publications are available now, and they’re free.             The 2013 Guide to Green Country, the SHOP. DINE. FUN!, and the Green Country Attractions Map are hot off the presses and filled with valuable information for planning trips and vacations throughout the 18-county region of northeastern Oklahoma’s Green...

January 28, 2013

Westside Community Center celebrates All That Jazz News Photo - Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Westside Community Center celebrates All That Jazz

Feb. 16 All That Jazz party: All about fun, fellowship and fuelling Westside youth programs   Less than a month away, the week of both Mardi Gras (Feb. 12) and Saint Valentine (Feb. 14) will be crowned by the 11th All That Jazz gala party on Saturday, Feb. 16.  It’s the annual gathering of bighearted partygoers for an evening of fun, fabulous jazz and New Orleans food - to benefit the youth programs at WestsideCommunity Center, a United Way agency since 1951.   “All That Jazz is kind of...

January 15, 2013

WOOLAROC FEATURED ON SATURDAY’S DISCOVER OKLAHOMA News Photo - Bartlesville, Oklahoma

WOOLAROC FEATURED ON SATURDAY’S DISCOVER OKLAHOMA

OKLAHOMA CITY – The January 19 edition of AAA’s Discover Oklahoma features Woolaroc, the former home of oilman Frank Phillips, Miss Addie’s Tea Room in Muskogee and the Same Noble Museum of Natural History in Norman. Join Shel Wagner on a Bigfoot hunt in Honobia and travel to Hugo to learn about the Endangered Ark Foundation.   AAA’s Discover Oklahoma airs Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. CT on KOTV-6 in Tulsa, KWTV-9 in Oklahoma City and KSWO-7 in Lawton. The show can also been seen...