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OKLAHOMA HAS NO SHORTAGE OF INTERESTING COLLECTIONS AND OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE VENUES.  BUT FEW OF US GET TO SEE WHAT GOES ON BEYOND THE PUBLIC SPACES.   THE OKLAHOMA CITY ZOO, FOR EXAMPLE, IS MORE THAN HOME TO 20-THOUSAND ANIMALS, IT’S ALSO A VETERINARY HOSPITAL AND A MUSEUM IN ITS OWN RIGHT THAT DATES BEFORE STATEHOOD.   JUST DOWN THE ROAD IN SHAWNEE, MUCH OF THE EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION AT THE MABEE-GERRER MUSEUM OF ART IS NEVER SEEN BY VISTORS.  95 PERCENT OF THE ART AND ARTIFACTS ARE IN STORAGE.   AND IN EDMOND, ONE OF THE STATE’S NEWEST PERFORMANCE VENUES, THE ARMSTRONG AUDITORIUM , WAS BUILT TO BE VISUALLY AND AURALLY STUNNING.   ON THIS EDITION OF STATELINE, WE VISIT THESE THREE ATTRACTIONS AND TAKE A LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

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Segment 1

 

10:56:56    Shane Granger    S-207    C0006

Well good afternoon my name is Shane Granger and I am the marketing director here at the Armstrong Auditorium. And I would like to welcome you to the facility. We just opened in September of 2010 so we have had a celebratory year our first season.

10:57:14    Shane Granger    S-207    C0006

This area that we are in right now is called the grand lobby and the auditorium is about a 45,000 ft facility the construction cost was right at 20 million dollars for the building and we have one of the finest performing arts centers of its size any where in the country.

Talk about the swan sculpture

11:00:25    Shane Granger    S-207    C0006

The Grande lobby here is obviously one of the first things you notice when you come into the building patrons when you come into the facility. It is really a beautiful hall. The pillars around the inside of the lobby are covered with a dark emperador marble which comes from china. Really the most stunning pieces we have are the onyx, this is called caramel onyx. It is caramel because of the color. And it comes from Azerbaijan. It was quarried in Azerbaijan. Then it is shipped to Viareggio, Italy where it is cut and polished and then brought here for the installation. Onyx is a very fragile stone and having an instillation of this size in really unusual. 

11:01:52    Shane Granger    S-207    C0006

Standing in front of the Onyx are two really magnificent candelabra these are French they are made by Bacharach from Bacharach France the dimensions are about seven feet tall. They weigh six hundred and fifty pounds and a third of that weight is lead because it is full lead crystal. They have 802 pieces each on the candelabra. The story behind them is really quite interesting. The Shah of Iran commissioned these pieces back in 1971. He wanted them at a celebration of 2500 years of Persian history going back to King Cyrus the great.

The grand lobby is dominated by three spectacular crystal chandeliers. The center chandelier is 12 feet in diameter; it is made up of over 21,000 pieces of crystal and weighs over 2 tons.

11:03:17    Shane Granger    S-207    C0006

They are trimmed in Swarovski crystal and it is the Strauss level of crystal, they have several levels of crystal and that is the highest they make, that is why they have such a beautiful color in them, because the index of light refraction is higher in Strauss than it is in other pieces. We have about 70,000 pieces of crystal in the whole facility. With all the chandeliers and wall sconces and things we have trough out the facility.

Talk about cherry wood

11:04:29    Shane Granger    S-207    C0006

Much of the time I hear patrons say “I feel like I am out of town,” because the facility is really world class. The beauty here is stunning and it is a jewel here in the crown of Oklahoma City. We are very proud to have and make available to people, to come and enjoy this right here in Edmond of all places.

11:13:33    Shane Granger    S-207    C0006

Well Robert we have been talking about the grand Lobby and how beautiful it is for the Patrons but also like to tell you a little bit about the back of the house and who beautiful it is for the performers. And Ryan Malone is our Operations Manager, and Ryan is going to tell you a little bit about how we take care of the artists.

11:15:27    Ryan Malone S-207    C0011

We have a strong philosophy here at Armstrong that superior environment can yield superior performance. So we believe as important as it is to have the patron feel elevated and inspired by all the palatial surroundings you see in the lobbies Shane was showing you about. We also have the same philosophy back here for the many high end artists that we are bringing to the auditorium.

11:16:49    Ryan Malone S-207    C0011

This is a volcano granite here even a little light fixture there with the Swarovski with a little shower and a bath. So again we like to cater to there every need and really give them a five star experience.

11:25:24    Ryan Malone S-207    C0011

They will make full use of the wardrobe closet that we have here and then we have a basket of goods available to them. We have refreshments and we have things in the fridge as well for them. So they can come in here and just camp out and really just take it easy.

11:19:27    Ryan Malone S-207    C0011

They are getting World class Cuisine that is the best we can provide. They are commenting constantly about that and they are commenting about the quality of the Piano. They are commenting about the Acoustics. They are commenting about the back stage technical amenities that we have. The fact that they can look on the monitor and not just see a square shot of the concert but they can see the angles changing and they really feel like they are involved in the performance. Like if say they were back stage waiting for their entrance they can be waiting watching and knowing when to come out. And really get almost a televised version of the show back here.

11:21:39    Ryan Malone S-207    C0011

That is another thing that the artist will say well I have seen things like this in Milan and in Rome and in London but they don't expect to see it here in Oklahoma. That really is something I think that we are very pleased with and that is something that we think all of Oklahoma can take pride in, we have that to offer.

11:26:28    Ryan Malone S-207    C0014

We also have another superior piece we have to present to our artists. We have these two Hamburg Steinway pianos. Well in fact let me go show you one of those before we go talk about that.

11:31:02    Ryan Malone S-207    C0014

We picked this Piano out of six that they had manufactured for us. Really I believe one of the most stunning instruments that I have ever played on. Now Ennen Barton was here with the academy of St. Martin in the Field. He said he didn't think that he would have a better piano all season than the one he played here.

11:32:56    Ryan Malone S-207    C0014

The Piano has quite a depth of sound. It can get a lot of sound out (plays Piano) So it is really nice and big but at the same time it can be very delicate. I say this piano can whisper. I have had very few pianos where when you just had to make the quietest sound sometimes pianos just think they don’t they don't make any sound but you know if I need to (plays Piano) Ok so you can get in al sorts of colors, more playful colors out. (plays Piano)

11:34:54    Ryan Malone S-207    C0014

So that is the Steinway, and this is where it all goes down right here on the stage. So you can see it is still in a functional mode right now. Sort of in transition between performances, and we have this beautiful acoustic shell here. We will turn you over to our stage manager to give you some more of the details about that. This is Roger Brandon. Hello, Hello Robert.

11:46:43   Roger  Brandon   S-207   C0017

It really is a state of the art facility.

11:45:35   Roger  Brandon   S-207   C0017

As you look ahead you can see just the outline of the Orchestra pit. It actually goes down nine feet.

11:46:43   Roger  Brandon   S-207   C0017

able to lift about 30,000 pounds so hopefully we never have anything in here that heavy that we need to figure out if that is going to work or not. But it really is a nice feature in this particular facility.

 

Talk about computerized lighting grid, fly system and cue call system…also easy moving shell. The stage is maple but stained cherry matches and it & the shell match the woodwork through out the building.

 

11:54:20   Roger  Brandon   S-207   C0021

So again the technology really does simplify things for us allowing us to do more with less man power which is really quite handy. 

 

12:10:33   Roger  Brandon   S-207   C0021

We have three pan/tilt/zoom cameras in those locations there is also an inferred camera which allows us to but also up in the light booth to be able to locate performers during a blackout so when the spotlight needs to come on they can find the performer in a blackout either they are center stage, stage right or stage left. And it gives them the opportunity to try to get them dead on when they turn their light on. 

 

12:50:46    Shane Granger    S-207    C0030

Well the acoustics in the building are world class and we are very excited about that. We sat down originally to begin planning the facility. Our chairman said to us “Look fellows if we don't knock the acoustics out of the park we have to hit a homerun with the acoustics or we have failed. I mean this is a performing arts center it has to be fantastic.” You know it has to be world class.

12:52:33    Shane Granger    S-207    C0030

There are Three concert halls used to measure acoustic quality. One is Boston Symphony Hall. One Is the Music Verinne in Vienne and the third is the Concirca Bau in Amsterdam. And Armstrong Auditorium Volume to seat ratio exceeds those three Halls in the Volume to seat ratio formula if you will. So we have world class Acoustics here.

12:57:23    Shane Granger    S-207    C0030

Ok Robert well let's take you upstairs and show you the balcony and the sound system and the video production. It is all up on the second level.

13:12:49    Dwight Faulk      S-207    C0044

So when there is a concert going on we can get a lot of different angles of it. So the audience doesn't have any idea that there is anything happening. They don't see cameras themselves. They are able to focus on the performance and we are able to get a pretty good recording of it.

13:14:43    Dwight Faulk      S-207    C0044

Over here we have our two remotes that we use. We have a quad monitor here which shows you can see it is labeled camera one two three and four. They show us our shots that we have. This is our preview monitor and our program. So what ever we got going up there is what is going out live to the monitors through out the hall.

Segment 2

 

Our next stop is Shawnee. On the campus of Saint Gregory’s University, Dane Pollei is waiting to give us a peek at treasures in storage at the school’s world renowned art museum founded in 1919 by Father Gregory Gerrer.

 

10:38:42   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0008

Hi Dane...Hi Robert, I'm Dane Pollei, I'm the Director and Chief Curator of the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art.

10:34:01   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0008

And the Mabee-Gerrer is one of the oldest museums in Oklahoma; we have an art collection that spans about 8,000 years of human history.

10:35:10   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0008

We've collected a lot of art work over the years and like a lot of other museums much of the collection is in storage, about 95% of our collection is in storage. What you see in the gallery is 5%, so today I'd like to take you back and show you some of the unique things in the storage area.

10:41:56   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0010

This is where the other 95% of our collection lives.

10:42:19   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0010

With well over 6,000 art objects there is always something to do, something to research. We learn about the collection almost every day, something new pops up, either something we didn't know before or we have researchers come and teach us something new about the collection. So there’s a few things I'd Like to show you if that’s O-K.

10:43:16   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0010

In the early 20th century there weren't really people in Oklahoma collecting Native American artwork, except for Father Gerrer. He recognized the quality of it, that it was a part of Oklahoma's heritage.

10:43:29   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0010

And so we have a wonderful collection of Kiowa 5 artwork, we have southwest pottery that he picked up in the early 20th century during his travels. This is actually a beaded cane that was made near Anadarko by Geronimo's sister.

10:43:54   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0010

It would have been somebody's cane to use, walking stick...maybe for fancy occasions, but used as a functional object.

10:44:22   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0010

We're not sure if she made it for Geronimo or some other relative, but she was the maker.

10:46:04   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0010

This cradle board was given to the museums founder, Father Gregory Gerrer many, many years ago and is listed as the cradle board for Quanah Parker.

10:46:41   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0010

We're still doing research on the style of the cradle board to make sure that it really is Quanah Parker's, but I don't think there's too much doubt that that's what it is and he was the last Chief of the Comanche in Oklahoma. 

 

The collection is as diverse as it is extensive...there are ancient Sumerian cuneiform tax records, Egyptian pottery that pre-dates the pharaohs, and a collection of gilded medieval icons.

 

11:45:01   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0030

Now we'd like to introduce you to Delaynna Trim, who is the Curator of Collections here at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art and she'll talk to you about    some of our medieval sculpture. Hi Delaynna...Hi Robert, nice to meet you.

11:44:09   Delaynna Trim   S-401   C0031

Here are some wonderful medieval Madonna and child pieces. Let me pull these out so you can get a better look at them.

 

The wooden sculptures were used during mass and in events outside the church or processions that would lead the Sunday stragglers back into the fellowship of the faithful.

 

11:45:03   Delaynna Trim   S-401   C0031

These are two out of five that we and they are all different and they are all from different regions. And you can tell they are all different artists. This is kind of a plain one there is still some paint still on it. This one you can actually see that there is still a lot of gold leaf on her dress. She even has a necklace which is kind of unusual. You don't really see a lot of Jewelry on a lot of Madonna’s.

11:45:28   Delaynna Trim   S-401   C0031

This is the traditional image of Christ as a full grown human on the lap as the child. There is a mistaken thought that in the medieval times they did that because they didn't know how to create a child like image. That is actually not true. It is actually because they thought that that was demeaning to put Christ as a child you know because of his status he needed to be shown as a man, that is why they portray him as a full grown miniature adult on the child.

11:48:41 Delaynna Trim S-401   C0031

Thanks Delaynna.

 

What would a trip to the museum be without a mummy?...or two.

10:15:56   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0005

Well this is part of our Egyptian collection which is considered to be the best collection of ancient Egyptian artwork between Chicago and Los Angles. This is actually the second mummy that we have in our collection. We have the only two Egyptian mummies in Oklahoma.

10:20:19   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0005

It is a little nerve wracking every time they are unwrapping something that is almost two thousand years old.

10:17:02   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0005

Three years ago Dr. Emily Teater at the University of Chicago discovered that this was actually a Roman era Mummy. Everyone thought it was a poorly done late period Mummy probably someone who was poor. Not wealthy because the Hieroglyphics on the coffin are not very good. The mummy itself is not in a good state of preservation. It was just not very nicely wrapped.

10:17:45   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0005

That is the period where the Hieroglyphics start to disappear. So the Hieroglyphics on the coffin do say some things. They don't identify the individual but they are correctly written incantations to certain deities.

10:22:31   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0005

It is too bad that they didn't write her name on there or identify her somehow because actually that was the whole point of being turned into a mummy was to have people saying your name and having people talk about you long after you were gone.

10:21:02   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0005

And the mummy is actually inside that Sarcophagus. Dr. Teater was able to pin point her to the Fayyum region of Egypt Based on the style of the Art Work. 

10:18:30   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0005

So it is really a fascinating story that she has to tell us. We will get her back out on display now that we know instead of a poor quality late period mummy it is actually as fine of quality as you are going to get in the Roman era.

 

It takes an expert eye to tell the difference between museum quality pottery and a Native American treasure.

 

10:49:20   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0010

We had someone come in oh; I think about five years ago, four years ago...and they just about had a heart attack. It was an expert of southwest pottery and he recognized it as being a very early Maria Martinez piece. His name is Peter Carl, he lives in Oklahoma City and when we turned the pot over it was a very faint signature and when you photograph it the signature appears quite clearly, and it is Maria's early signature.

 

Martinez' is famous for her dark painted pots, this being an early, light colored work makes it very rare.

 

11:23:38   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0020

What are we brining out here? We are bringing out one of our Kiowa five portfolios. The Kiowa five were a group of Kiowa artists who were trained at the University of Oklahoma. Really the first Native Americans trained in a western art school.

When Father Gerrer bought the portfolio, no one was collecting modern Native American art, but Gerrer was a friend to the artists and their mentor Oscar Jacobsen. The Kiowa Five went to school at St. Patrick’s mission in Anadarko, which was run by the monks of St. Gregory’s Abbey.

 

11:24:40   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0020

Really they were the first members of that contemporary Native American Art movement that is so big now in the United States, and all over the world. They had that flat very two dimensional style of painting. That was by choice.

11:24:28   Dane Pollei    S-401   C0020

But it is beautiful art work. This is one of the full portfolios that was produced of their art work, and actually produced in France, again because they were more popular there.

 

The museum’s public collections include Egyptian, Greek and Roman objects, art from the Middle Ages and Renaissance through the early 20th century, and large holdings of Native American, African and Eastern cultural artifacts. The Mabee-Gerrer Museum of art is located on the campus of St. Gregory’s University in Shawnee. They are open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 to 5:00, and Sundays from 1:00 until 4:00.

Segment 3

The Oklahoma City Zoo is home to 22-thousand animals from all over the world. In 1990 the citizens of Oklahoma City dedicated one eighth of a cent sales tax to support the zoo. Since then there have been a lot of changes and there is a lot to see behind as the final touches are put in place.

 

10:04:27   Amy Stephens    C0003    S-408

Hello, Hi Robert.

10:07:01     Amy Stephens    C0003    S-408

Hi I am Amy Stephens I am the senior naturalist here at the education dept. at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Welcome to our building. It is beautiful. I am going to take you with me and we are going to show you how we set up our owl program for preschoolers today.

10:09:09     Amy Stephens    C0005    S-408

We are going to walk down to classroom four, and Preschoolers is a new program for us we are starting a mother’s day out program called nature explorers.

10:09:28     Amy Stephens    C0005    S-408

So this is our nature explorer’s class I already have an owl set up that I want to get to show you, that the kids will also get to see.

10:11:04     Amy Stephens    C0006    S-408

Now if you don't mind just hold right there so I can get my gloves on. Of course I wear this because she can have sharp talons. This is a short eared owl. It is part of the Zoo's family. And Step Up.

10:11:22     Amy Stephens    C0006    S-408

Usually she is very calm there is a chance that she will flap her wings a little bit so don't let tat frighten you. This is actually an owl from Oklahoma called a short eared owl. She is hissing a little bit that is kind of her warning call. Like Oh you are getting a little too close.

10:12:11   Robert Burch    C0006     S-408

How does she do with the children?

10:12:15     Amy Stephens    C0006    S-408

The animals that we use in our programs are designated for use with children. So she is not in the zoo collection. If you walk around the zoo you will not see her. She goes to classes every day. We travel to schools with our zoo mobile program all the time. We go to nursing homes and day care centers. So she is in the public eye quite frequently. She is our little rock star.

In addition to being a naturalist Amy is also the unofficial historian of the zoo.

10:41:14     Amy Stephens    C0018    S-408

So Robert you might know that the zoo has a very rich history. Our zoo has been in existence since 1902. So we have a lot of artifacts and memories to share about our history.

 

Oklahoma City established a zoo five years before statehood with a small exotic animal menagerie at Delmar Gardens on the banks of the North Canadian River. The staff is busy putting together thousands of artifacts that tell the zoo’s 109 year history, like a newspaper ad to collect pennies to buy Judy the elephant and the story of a song that helped obtain a hippo.

 

10:44:24     Amy Stephens    C0018    S-408

So this is a wooden book let me turn it around so you can see it. It was on display at the zoo. And inside is just a type written list of every donor’s name. All of those children who are now adults who still remember Matilda the Hippo. Of course that song I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas is really popular in our state.

10:44:49     Amy Stephens    C0018    S-408

The little girl who sang the song Gala Pevy was 10 years old at the time she is hoping to come here next year and do a celebration with us next Christmas, for her song.

 

What was once a shower room and lifeguard tower for swimmers will soon display the history collection.

 

11:22:52 Amy Stephens    C0031    S-408

So Robert welcome to the zooseum. This is a building that is almost 80 years old and it is about to take on new life. It originally started off as a bath house next to north East Lake which is now Zoo Lake. People would come in here to change their clothes get into shower stalls and put on their bathing suits. It has had many different lives since then. It has been a storage building it used to store the train. Now it is going to be a place where people can live their zoo memories and learn more about the zoo.

 

The zooseum sits in the center of the new 13 million dollar, 9 and a half acre elephant habitat. On this day the elephants are in their new homes and getting a check up from their doctor Jennifer D’Agostino.

 

10:57:55   Jennifer D’Agostino    C0007    S-404

Hey Jennifer…Hi Robert nice to see you. Welcome to our new elephant habitat here at the Oklahoma city Zoo. We have two female Asian elephants here. Our new exhibit is going to open in the spring. We are very excited about that we just brought our elephants back from Tulsa. I would like to show you today some of the things that we do to care for our elephants here at the OKC zoo to maintain their well being and their health.

10:37:08 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0002    S-404

We have two female elephants they are Asian elephants Asha and Chandra.

10:35:26   Jennifer D’Agostino    C0002    S-404

So right now what the staff is doing is preparing all the equipment that they need to do a trunk wash sample. A trunk wash sample basically includes doing a sterile saline solution into their trunk then they are going to lift the trunk up into the air for everybody. Then the elephants are trained to shoot the saline into a clean plastic bag. Basically what that is doing they are exhaling out the equivalent of a human sputum sample. So we are going to be getting some of their respiratory secretion. What we do with that culture is we send that in to test them for tuberculosis. Elephants are very prone to tuberculosis in captivity, so we are required by the USDA to test them every year. So that is kind of what we are doing here. So they are going to elevate that nose and try to get that sample all the way up into the nose. And on queue she is going to blow into the bag. You can see that they blow quite powerfully and we can get a good sample. What you want to see is a lot of that good snot sample. Snot is good. Sometimes they break the bag. They get a little over zealous.

 

The staff works with the elephants every day, feeding them, washing them and there’s always a little treat at the end. These days the girls are getting extra special treatment.

10:37:08 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0002    S-404

Asha right now is pregnant we are very excited about that as well. We sent them to Tulsa two years ago they have a bull their named “Sneezy.” They kind of went on an extended date with him for breeding purposes and Asha did get pregnant. Which we are very excited about Chandra we don't know yet.

10:38:45 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0002    S-404

You know we are going to have a lot to do depending on how Asha is with the baby. We should have her viewable to the public with in a week or so. With our new exhibit they will be able to see inside the barn. So even if they can't go outside they will still be able to see them, which is very exciting.

10:40:39 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0002    S-404

They are going to do a blood collection. So basically what we do is we collect blood on each of our elephants once a week. That is to monitor their hormone levels. That is another way we can check on the pregnancy.

11:01:03 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0010    S-404

So that is some of the things that we do to monitor the health of our elephants at the OKC zoo. I would like to take you to our new children’s zoo that just opened last year. We can show you a little bit about what we do with our other species that we can handle. They are domestic animals. We have to make sure we can maintain their health so we can show you a little about that over at the children’s zoo.

 

As the chief veterinarian for the zoo Jennifer is an expert on the physiology of all the species of fish, foul, reptiles and mammals here. On any given day she could be performing a surgery on a frog, or taking the temperature of a giraffe. Today she’s giving a pedicure at the petting zoo.

 

11:22:53 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0019    S-404

Welcome to our children’s zoo which we opened last year in March. This is the petting zoo area of the children’s zoo. Where we have the domestic species for the kids where they can actually get there hands on and actually touch the animals. Where they can touch them and pet them and kind of see how we work with them.

11:23:07 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0019    S-404

What we are going to be doing today is looking at one of our goats that needs a foot trim. Sometimes in captivity their hooves get a little over grown so we have to trim of that excessive foot tissue so we don't have any foot problems that are associated with that.

11:23:31 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0019    S-404

The one that Chrislyn is getting right now is Olegah. All of the goats where named by the public and named after towns in the state of Oklahoma.

11:24:16 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0019    S-404

Hello little Olegah how are you? What we do is set them on their little back end here and I have two different tools that I use for the goat hoof trim depending on what the feet look like. So basically what we are going to do is. Look at them all first and I see what needs to be taken off.

11:24:37 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0019    S-404

This one is the worst you can see where that hoof tissue is growing out beyond where the bottom of the foot is.

11:24:47 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0019    S-404

We trim them because if the hoof gets too long they actually start walking on the foot abnormally. And it can cause them to have arthritis issues. It can cause them to have a limp. So we want to make sure we keep that trimmed short.

11:51:14 Jennifer D’Agostino    C0021    S-404

It is an exciting time here at the zoo, thanks Jennifer for showing us around. Oh, it's nice to meet you and I'm glad you could come out to the zoo today.

 

A project close to the doctors heart are plans for a new veterinary hospital for the animals with plans for a portion open to the public so visitors can get a peek at how the animals are cared for.  For more information about the zoo you can log onto their website at okczoo.com, or drop by…the zoo is open every day from 9:00 to 5:00 year round.

 

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THE ARMSTRONG AUDITORIUM IS LOCATED BETWEEN EDMOND AND GUTHRIE WEST OF I-35.  INFORMATION ABOUT UPCOMING CONCERTS AND EVENTS MAY BE FOUND ON ITS WEBSITE.   THE MABEE-GERRER MUSEUM OF ART IS ON THE GROUNDS OF ST. GREGORY’S ABBEY IN SHAWNEE.  IT’S CLOSED MONDAYS AND MANY CHRISTIAN HOLIDAYS.   AND THE OKLAHOMA CITY ZOO IS OPEN DAILY YEAR ROUND EXCEPT THANKSGIVING, CHRISTMAS, AND NEW YEARS DAY.   ALL ARE CERTAINLY WORTH VISITING—JUST DON’T EXPECT A TOUR BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

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