Storyteller: Wisdom, Roger

Interviewer: Bertalot, Lorretta

Date: 08/28/2018

Language: English

Initiative: Tulsans Talk

Description: Roger Wisdom learned to collect special items by watching his mother. Her collections went mostly to Philbrook. Roger served 4 years in Viet Nam running a mail route on a tanker. The newscaster Cy Tuma was crippled and welcomed Roger to a meeting. Roger Found Tuma's film and letter about the 1957 Tulsarama and Miss Belvedere and it was reunited with the lottery winners of the car. He has reunited Family Bibles with their inheritors. Auction houses and private sales are mostly his sources. His mom collected things from the poor side of town to resale once a year. Roger's future will be to conserve antiques and donate items to places they belong.

Subjects: Keeping records, Jerome Tiger, Will Samson, Mail route in Viet Nam, Sequoyah's pipe, Trail of Tears bowl, Connecting historical items to their owners or appropriate facilities Cy Tuma's typewriter, Family Bibles, Strong and insightful mother