The key Centennial subjects - one for each month - include
music, aviation, petroleum, land run in Guthrie, weather,
Oklahoma! the musical, sports, water, Native American
education, transportation, patriotism and astronauts.
Among the distinguished contributing writers are former
governors Frank Keating and David Boren; First Lady
Kim Henry; astronaut Thomas Stafford; beloved Oklahoma
author Michael Wallis, Bishop Robert Hayes of the Oklahoma
Conference of the United Methodist Church; Stephen Prescott,
M.D., President of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation;
Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Lance
Cargill; Cindy Ball, 2004 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year;
Renzi Stone, ex OU basketball player and Oklahoma City
businessman and several others.
Among the outstanding photographs are the State Capitol
building with the new dome and the Guardian, the Tulsa
skyline with fireworks and lasers to help kick off the
Centennial year long celebration; our eight astronauts,
a 1918 patriotic parade in Lawton, the Choctaw railroad
line in 1902, Route 66, Northeastern State University
campus in 1889, Altus Lake, a dust storm in Hooker in
1937; staking out town lots in Guthrie in 1889 and a
town scene 10 days later, Altus Lake, oil derricks on
the Capitol grounds, five musical legends (Bob Wills,
Gene Autry, Woody Guthrie, Garth Brooks and Patti Page)
and a colorful picture from the musical Oklahoma!
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