By “Oil Dorado,” a documentary film about the oil boom in El Dorado will premiere next Wednesday (March 21) on KPTS, public television in Wichita.
Yeah, PBS out of Wichita. Which means that we won’t be able to see it in Emporia, darn it.
But those of you in the Wichita area, be sure and tune in.
The documentary evolved from a pictorial history, “El Dorado: Legacy of an Oil Boom,” written by Dr. Jay Price, a history professor at Wichita State University.
Jay Price (right) signs a book for a retired oilman at the Kansas Oil Museum in El Dorado on December 14, 2005.
Further reading:
“WSU Professor Works to Keep History Alive,” written by Becky Tanner of the Wichita Eagle and reprinted in the Capital-Journal
A Flyover People column, “The El Dorado Oil Boom.”
I’ve never been in that museum. Sometime when we’re down there….
I wonder if we get KPTS. Our locals come out of Wichita. We don’t get Topeka channels. If we get it, I’ll try to remember to watch it. That should be interesting. Madison was part of the oil boom.
Our get our PBS out of Joplin, Mo.——–it is called OPS!!!
Ozark Public Station