The Occasional Podcaster
Retired from nearly 50 years as a broadcaster and audio engineer, Greg Mashburn occasionally offers conversation and interviews with local community and business leaders focusing on topics of interest to Muskogee and the rest of Eastern Oklahoma.
Episodes
In just a few weeks time, the Founders’s Place Historical District of Muskogee will host an event sure to bring some color to us all . . . not to mention a little barbecue ! the Founder’s garden tours, also knowns as “Backyards and Barbecue “ will be held on June the 14th… FLAG DAY! Our guest this time around is no stranger to my listeners; she is Jonita Mullins, Oklahoma historian, public speaker, author, and - who knew - reside...
Muskogee's Three Rivers Museum is tasked to “preserve our past and promote our future”. One way the museum does that is with its annual celebration of Bass Reeves; a territorial marshal for many years based out of Fort Smith Arkansas, then as a member of the Muskogee Police Dept in the early 1900’s.
The annual Bass Reeves Western History Celebration has grown from it’s initial event 15 years ago to what it is today; drawing att...
Jonita Mullins is a well-known and respected author, newspaper columnist, historian, public speaker and, we are honored to say, a good friend and welcome guest on our podcast.
Jonita has recently published her seventeenth book, "The Tearful Trail", and it is available now just in time to add to your summer reading list. Go get yourself a coffee, an iced tea or some other refreshing drink and settle in for a very interesti...
Today we chat with local author Rikisha Morgan Harrison. She has created what she hopes will become a yearly event… the Muskogee Area Author Expo; happening June 21st at Northeastern State University's Muskogee campus. It is not too late to sign up as a vendor/participant in the Author Expo; so give us a listen to find out how to take part in this first annual event.
We chat with Patricia Ridge-Bradley and Becky Lucht, both members of MAG… the Muskogee Art Guild. MAG is preparing for it’s annual spring fundraiser, the Black and White Art Show, as well as making preparations for the guild’s summer art camp for kids.
This time around we visit with Tourism Spokesman Nick Schafer about summer events in Fort Gibson, including the upcoming return of "Old Fort Days" on May 9th and 10th.
On this episode, we visit with Brad Rickleman, the assistant director of Meridian Technology Center in Stillwater. Here, early on in 2025, we are seeing a new administration; a new financial picture and more and more of us are looking for that “side hustle” or perhaps the creation of our own business in order to meet the financial challenges facing us.
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On this episode, we visit with Derrick Reed and Pastor David Ragsdale representing Muskogee’s Martin Luther King Center. Plans are approaching completion for the observance of MLK Day on January 20th with food, music some preaching and a parade! There are plenty of opportunities for you or your group to participate in the overall event
... a small but sincere gift from me to my listeners this Christmas season.
On this episode, we visit with Bryce Marshall; he is the Director of the newly-created “Film Muskogee” a city entity devoted to attracting major movie projects to Muskogee . There is a movement towards the creation of “movie-friendly” cities across the country and we will talk about that idea and what it can mean to Muskogee.
On this episode, we visit with Patricia Ridge Bradley and fellow MAG member Todd Jones about the upcoming Muskogee Art Guild Fall Open Show and Sale, running from November 14th thru the 22nd with the exhibition open to the public for viewing and purchases.
Greg visits with students from his introduction to podcasting class at Muskogee's Indian Capital Technology Center.
We visit with Executive Director Kathy Seibold and Marketing Manager Wendy Burton from the Eastern Oklahoma Library System. We'll discuss plans for an upcoming fundraiser for the Muskogee Public Library to update, repair, renovate, reimagine and repurpose the facility to meet the needs of today’s patrons as well as those of the next 50 years.
MAG president Leah Hays and art camp director Jamie Triplett visit with us about Summer Art Camps For Kids, with several different sessions scheduled throughout the last three weeks of July. Topics include Art in Mexican Culture; Art in Native American Culture; The Art of Me; Fundamentals of Drawing and many others.
The 14th annual Bass Reeves Western History Conference, sponsored by Muskogee's Three Rivers Museum is scheduled for mid-June.
In this episode, we visit with museum director Angie Rush about the conference and other events happening soon at the museum.
We visit with Sharon Ray, whom along with her husband Oscar, founded Oklahoma's premiere independent film festival just over 25 years ago in Muskogee, Oklahoma. With participants from around the world, the festival can proudly claim the title "International".
Two interviews in this episode! First, we visit with local historian and author Jonita Mullins about her new book, a collection of articles, stories and columns about Ft. Gibson in advance of the celebration of that community's upcoming 200th anniversary in April of 2024.
Next, our guests Patricia Ridge Bradley and Jim Eaton, volunteers and members of the Muskogee Art Guild. We'll be chatting about the "Black & Wh...
The Occasional Podcaster introduces you to a new friend and colleague; Elvira Smith.
From her arrival in Oklahoma in the mid '80's to her work today here in Muskogee as a Spanish instructor for the Muskogee public schools, Elvira is deeply involved in culture and education.
In addition to teaching Spanish for the school system, she also teaches English as a second language for Muskogee Bridges Out of Poverty.
We offer to...
My guests this time around are Fort Gibson Historic Site Director Jennifer Frazee and Author and Historian Jonita Mullins. We discuss the opening of the historic fort at what is now the Northeastern Oklahoma community of Fort Gibson and it's importance from its beginnings in 1824 up to today.
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