Photo Highlights from the 2000 Celebration

These photos were taken by David Varmecky.


Doug Watson as Will Rogers does one of Will's famous rope tricks. The panel, Celebrating Will Rogers, was a featured presentation at the Celebration and C-Span 2 broadcast it nationally.

Jim Lehrer autographs a
book for one of his biggest fans,
Tulsa Mayor Susan Savage.

Oprah author Kaye Gibbons accepts the Center's Homecoming Award.

Billie Letts, another Oprah author, signs copies of her novel, Where The Heart Is, now a major motion picture.

Earl Hamner, creator of The Waltons, visits with fans who feel like part of the family.

"Oklahoma is tallgrass prairie and everlasting mountains. It is secret patches of ancient earth tromped smooth and hard by generations of dancing feet."

--from "Searching for Hidden Rhythms in Twilight Land"
by Michael Wallis