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Kate Barnard 150th Birthday Celebration & Book Signing
Join us Saturday, May 24th from 2-4pm at Oak Tree Books as we celebrate the Good Angel of Oklahoma, Kate Barnard with a proclamation by Mayor Monroe Nichols and Book Signing with authors: Michael Wallis, Connie Cronley, Randy Krehbiel, and Rilla Askew. With guest speakers and Live Music by the Cowbop trio, Swing West, photo opportunity with Kate Barnard, and cookies!
This event is Free and open to the public!
Kate Barnard was the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma 1907 as Commissioner of Charities and Corrections fourteen years before women's suffrage. Responsible for the state's 300+ hospitals, orphanages and correctional institutions, she was rigorous in implementing modern treatment and benevolent care. Enormously popular, she was know nationally as The Good Angel of Oklahoma and was a fiery and fierce social reformer who championed education, child labor laws, compassionate mental health care, criminal justice reform and Native American rights.
Michael Wallis has published seventeen books, including Route 66: The Mother Road about the historic highway U.S. Route 66. His newest book Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend will be published in June 2025.
Connie Cronley has published three books of essays and co-authored a memoir with the late Edward Perkins. Her newest book A Life on Fire: Oklahoma's Kate Barnard was named by the Oklahoma Historical Society as the best history book of the year.
Rilla Askew is and American novelist whose numerous books have won several awards. Her novel, Fire in Beulah won the American Book Award in 2002. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame in 2003.
Randy Krehbiel has been a reporter for the Tulsa World since 1979 and now covers political and governmental affairs in Oklahoma and the United States. He is the author of Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre and Tulsa, 2021: A Massacre's Centennial and a Nation's Reckoning.
Come celebrate the life and legacy of the first woman elected to office in Oklahoma, Kate Barnard!
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