Local things to put on your summer bucket list
By Derrick James STAFF WRITER Jun 10, 2021 3 min to read
Summer typically brings good food, good music and good times â and several events in the coming months will bring just that to the surrounding area.
Here is a list of some festivals, concerts and events our community can enjoy during the summer:
Charlie Parr performs during the Dancing Rabbit Music Festival in downtown McAlester on May 8. SIERRA ELLIS | For the News-Capital
1. Dancing Rabbit Music Festival in McAlester
Held in downtown McAlester, the festival will feature John Fullbright and Stephen Speaks on June 12 and Band of Heathens and local musician Josh Hass on July 3. Food trucks and beer gardens are planned to add to the street-festival atmosphere. The cost of admission is free with VIP seats available for purchase.
Gilcrease left behind a legacy of art
Dale Lewis
E-E- Columnist
Welcome back. Over the past 17 years, I’ve recommended many places for you readers to visit, and this week I’ve got another one. But don’t wait too long, because on July 5 the City of Tulsa will be bringing in heavy equipment that will tear down Gilcrease Museum.
Yes friends, if you want to see the historic building that Thomas Gilcrease constructed to house one of the world’s largest, most comprehensive collections of art and artifacts of the Old West you’d better hurry.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Thomas Gilcrease, here’s a short biography. He was born in 1890 in Louisiana but shortly afterward the family moved to the Eufaula, Oklahoma, area in Indian Territory. His mother was a member of the Muscogee Nation and was entitled to a 160-acre allotment on the Creek tribal lands where the family settled.
Two of Alabama’s most populous cities are among those losing people the fastest, according to new Census estimates. Between 2019 and 2020, Birmingham - the biggest city in Alabama, for now - and Montgomery each lost nearly 2,000 people, just shy of 1% of their populations. The rate of decline in each city was enough to put them both among the bottom 10 for population change among cities in .