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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Wild West/Wild Women or How the West Was Fun
NATCHEZ, Miss. (WJTV) – The Natchez Little Theatre will host a fundraiser on Friday, May 16 with a ticketed dinner and cash bar, followed by the premiere 'staged reading' of Wild West/Wild Women or How the West Was Fun. The vignette showcases three misunderstood frontier females, Annie Oakley, Sarah Winchester, and Lola Montez, who refused to accept conventional boundaries while alive or even after their deaths. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
Annie Oakley artifacts locked away for decades in bank vault on display at local museum
Artifacts that belonged to sharpshooter Annie Oakley that have been locked away for decades are now on display at a local museum. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] A .32 caliber, Smith & Wesson, pearl-handled revolver that Oakley would sleep with under her pillow when she traveled can now be found at the Garst Museum in Darke County. TRENDING STORIES: Deputies searching for missing 15-year-old Greene County girl; can you help? Burned remains of beloved local market now an eyesore Cleanup continues after train derails dumping wheat into Clark County creek It is on display with a dressing gown case and Oakley's pink pillow. The items almost went to a museum in Wyoming, according to a media release. The great-grandchildren of William Longfelder, the executor of both Annie Oakley's and her husband Frank Butler's estates, visited the Garst Museum the day after the tornado in May 2024 and were given a flashlight tour of the museum. Even in the dim light, the Longfelder heirs chose the Darke County Museum as the new home for the treasured items. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Historic hotel in Blowing Rock to be demolished
A historic hotel in the North Carolina High Country is being torn down. The Green Park Inn in Blowing Rock, which was built back in 1891, is set for demolition. ALSO READ: Carolina Theatre gets ready to reopen after 47 years During its 133-year history, the hotel's guests included 2 presidents, Annie Oakley, and Margaret Mitchell, who penned a portion of Gone with the Wind while staying at the hotel. On Friday, Channel 9 crews spotted workers trying to salvage some of the wood from the historic hotel. The town of Blowing Rock said the new owner wants to build condos and a forty-room hotel on the site. VIDEO: Historic Carolina Theatre reopens in Uptown
