From a sign at the house » “The last of eight children born in the family of Mary and Clem Rogers, William Penn Adair Rogers was born November 4, 1879 in the southeast bedroom of this log-walled house located in Indian Territory's Cherokee Nation. Part-Indian Will Rogers was a humorist-philosopher, star of Ziegfeld Follies and 71 motion pictures, syndicated newspaper columnist and author of seven books and America's original radio commentator. His credo: I Never Met a Man I Didn't Like.”
Retired economics professor (“dismal scientist”). Married 40+ years to the love of my life; we have two grown daughters, both married, two granddaughters and a...