Route 66 debuted as a national highway system in 1926 when 2,400 miles of mostly unpaved local and state roads were cobbled together to link Chicago and Los Angeles.
On Monday, Feb. 26 and Tuesday, Feb. 27, the Will Rogers Memorial Museum will hold “Will’s Garage Sale,” a spring cleaning sale. The sale will be held from 8 a.m.
The Claremore Rotary Club hosted the premier showing of a half-hour retrospective on Will Rogers and his life at the Will Rogers Memorial Museum Tuesday afternoon.
When Tom Egbert was a young man growing up in Claremore, he did what most teenagers did on weekends back then. He "dragged main" with a friend who wanted to