New Roger Miller museum

[Janice Brooks]

Roger Miller Gets Museum
The great Roger Miller is being honored with a museum in the little town in Oklahoma where he grew up, Erick. It's on Route 66, the legendary road for taking off and being free, which Roger Miller finally did. The museum will receive a soft opening over the next few weeks, with the official opening likely being this fall. The facility is located in a 3,000-square-foot historic brick building at the intersection of Roger Miller Boulevard (actually Route 66, re-named for Roger for a stretch of highway there) and Sheb Wooley Avenue in the microscopic town (population 1,023 in the year 2000). The country artist Sheb Wooley was also from Erick--he was Roger's brother-in-law--and he will have a display section in the Roger Miller Museum. Wooley gave Roger a fiddle and encouraged him musically when he was 11.


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Janice "Busgal" Brooks
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