Thursday, 9:30a-4p, 1wk | 11/2

Format: Participation
Instructor: Joe Sears, Tony-nominated Actor

Location: Dewey, Oklahoma

Important Info: $25 (both levels), $35 non-members

 

We’ll start with a personalized tour of the beautifully restored 1900 “Grand Old Lady of the Prairie” Dewey Hotel with local expert and reenactor Joe Sears. We’ll cross the street to tour the Tom Mix Museum, honoring the first cowboy mega movie star before there were “talkies.” Lunch will be at Sabores Mexican Restaurant, and we’ll close the day at Prairie Song, a 19th Century Old West town complete with saloon, post office, general store, chapel, doctor's office and more. Fee does not include lunch.

Mondays, 10a-12p, 6wks | 9/18-10/30, no class 10/16
Format: Presentation

Instructor: Stacey Dawson, OSU Extension Educator

Location: Bartlesville Public Library
Important Info: A La Carte Price: $25

 

Interested in the latest kitchen cooking methods? Each week, we’ll complete different types of food preparations, including the use and benefits of air fryers, instant pots and crock pots. We’ll also review freezer techniques, food safety, meal prep and budgeting.

Tuesdays, 10a-12p, 8wks | 9/19-10/31
Format: Presentation
Instructors: Various
Location: Bartlesville Public Library
Important Info: Free, Registration required

 

Join us to hear from various speakers on timely topics, such as organizational tips for appraising, selling and donating your items; an introduction to magic principles, the Reda Pump story, history of Osage Hills, Voice of the Martyrs ministry, the history of Dewey, and more. A full list of presenters and topics is available on the OLLI course enrollment website. 

 

September 19 | Organizational Tips for Appraising, Selling and Donating Your Items

Martha Calaniese, GIA-certified jeweler

 

September 26 | Introduction to Magic Principles

Pete Waltersheid, Professional Magician

 

October 3 | Reda Pump Company: A Personal Journey

Joe Williams, Management Consultant, Writer and Editorial Advisor

 

October 10 | The Start and Times of Dewey OK

Jack Fleharty, GIA - Certified Gemologist & Former Vice-President and President, of the Washington Co. Historical Society

 

October 17 | OSU Extension Master Gardeners

Kennedy McCall, Extension Educator Ag/4

October 24 | The Voice of Martyrs

Jonathan Ekman, Chief of International Ministry Strategy & Partnerships for The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM)

 

October 31 | Osage Hills History

Kyle Thoreson, Park Ranger, Osage Hills State Park

Tuesdays, 1:30-4p, 4wks | 9/19-10/10
Format: Presentation

Instructor: Sidney Brammer, Writer and Director

Location: Bartlesville Public Library
Important Info: A La Carte Price: $25

 

Join us as we watch and discuss four beautiful, funny and moving films about the experience of being an immigrant in the United States: Lee Isaac Chung's Minari (starring Steven Yeun, Youn Yuh-jung and filmed in Oklahoma); Gregory Nava's Mi Familia (starring Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales and Jimmy Smits); John Crowley's Brooklyn (starring Saorise Ronan); and Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala (starring Sarita Choudhury and Denzel Washington).

Tuesdays, 1:30-3:30p, 3wks | 10/17-11/7, no class 10/24
Format: Participation

Instructor: Katherine Powell, Sommelier

Location: St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Important Info: A La Carte Price: $25. Supply Fee: $30 (both levels). Max 15 people.

 

Washington (with more than 1,000 wineries and 400 vineyards) and Oregon (with more than 800 wineries and 1,100 vineyards) are the second and third largest U.S. wine producers behind California. Latitudes of these wineries are comparable to the latitudes of some of the world’s most famous vintners in France. We’ll explore the rich history of these northwest wineries and use the deductive method of wine tasting to recognize and characterize the excellent wines of that region. No wine tasting experience needed. 

Wednesdays, 10a-12p, 8wks | 9/20-11/8

Format: Lecture

Instructors: Michael Patterson, Creative Aging Specialist

Location: Bartlesville Public Library

Important Info: A La Carte Price: $25

 

This course will review the risk and protective factors associated with the Behavioral Roots of Brain Health. Learn a framework for overcoming mental confusion and conflict by cultivating healthy and positive mindsets and mental dispositions. Topics covered include using your mind to manage autonomic nervous system, mental exercise and stimulation, mind balancing, managing mindsets and mental dispositions, habits, routines, creativity and more. 

Wednesdays, 1:30-3:30p, 4wks | 10/18-11/8

Format: Lecture
Instructor: Luann Sewell Waters, Educator

Location: Bartlesville Public Library

Important Info: A La Carte Price: $25

 

When you visit a cemetery, you enter a world where a secret language tells the story of the dead...and the living. Gravestones are rich in a language of symbol that changes over time, which can make it difficult to interpret original meanings. By studying the symbols and customs, especially those in Oklahoma, you’ll learn more than names and dates. You’ll glean histories, genealogy, social membership and occupations. You’ll also learn about science, art and historic architecture. You might even glimpse some residents’ thoughts on an afterlife.

Thursdays, 10a-12p, 6wks | 9/21-10/26
Format: Lecture

Instructor: Jonita Mullins, Historian and Author

Location: Bartlesville Public Library
Important Info: A La Carte Price: $25

 

For thirty years before the infamous Trail of Tears in 1839, the Cherokees had slowly been migrating west. These early settlers in Indian Territory came to be called “Old Settlers.”  They built a life for themselves in the West, but when the Trail of Tears brought the eastern Cherokees to Indian Territory, the clash between the two groups brought their nation to the brink of their own civil war.

Thursdays, 1:30-3:30p, 3wks | 9/28-10/12
Format: Lecture

Instructor: Andy Taylor, Newspaperman and Author

Location: Bartlesville Public Library
Important Info: A La Carte Price: $25

 

Have you heard the story of Shangri-La in Oklahoma and the murders on the night of statehood in 1907? How about a woman named Narcissa to whom the Cherokee Nation owes its history? Or the Bartlesville actor named Nip, whose tale is the greatest untold crime story in the history of Oklahoma and Kansas. Hear these tales from a dogged reporter who has spent his career investigating regional history and knows where the bodies are buried.