Davis Cultural Heritage Consulting

02/28/2024

Wright-Patterson AFB sustains damage from suspected tornado. The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force’s Restoration Hangar 4, Gate 22B (I-675 Gate) and several other buildings on WPAFB's Area B sustained damage after a suspected early-morning tornado touched down today, Feb 28.

The 88th Civil Engineer Group, first responders and base safety personnel are assessing damage throughout the base.

“Our initial assessment from this morning’s storm is the damage is isolated to the southern side of Area B. Our initial focus right now is on safety and damage assessment. I can’t speak highly enough about our security forces, Fire Department and civil engineer Airmen for their quick response and hard work to assess damage and determine a path forward for restoring operations as quickly as possible.”
-- Col. Travis Pond, 88th Air Base Wing and installation commander

📸Damage photos can be viewed on the 88 ABW Flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/wrightpattafb/albums/72177720315118225.

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Life Cycle Management Center

12/17/2021

118 years ago today, mankind achieved powered flight for the first time

09/18/2021

Congratulations to Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt and our friends at the First Americans Museum on their grand opening this weekend!

The young French nobleman was walking down the streets of Paris in 1780 when a rose fell at his feet. He looked up to see a beautiful woman in the window above. It was Tae-Gle-Ha, or Laughing Buffalo, of the Omaha tribe. She had spent the previous year in Paris, but returned to America the very next day. The young man followed and spent the next ten years searching America for her. Within two weeks of finally finding her, they were married.

In 2018, Laughing Buffalo’s great-great-great-great grandson became the first Native American Mayor of Oklahoma City.

Leonard Fuller was born in 1911, attended an Osage school and graduated from Pawhuska High School in 1928, at the height of the Reign of Terror. Leonard’s great-great-grandmother was known only through written records as “an Indian woman of the Osage Nation,” leading to his status as a registered member of that tribe. Known to his non-Native family members as “Uncle Chief,” Leonard (pictured below) would spend three decades in the United States Army and retire as a Colonel. He would pass away at age 96 in Oklahoma City, in the care of his grandson and granddaughter-in-law.

On Saturday morning, Col. Fuller’s grandson - now the Mayor of Oklahoma City, descendant of Osage and Omaha, French and English - will stand with men and women of equally complicated heritage, to open perhaps the world’s greatest center of Native and Indigenous history and culture.

It took 129 years for a registered member of a tribal nation to be elected Mayor of Oklahoma City. It took a bit longer to open the First Americans Museum, but these two moments have now aligned. As a proud son of Oklahoma City and of the Osage Nation, it will forever be one of my greatest honors that they did. I can’t wait for morning to come.

07/22/2021

History Made!

More than 60 years after proving women could physically handle the rigors of space flight, New Mexico native and graduate of Oklahoma State University, Mary Wallace “Wally” Funk (82) became the oldest human to ever fly in space when she joined Dutch student Oliver Daemen (who at 18 became the yo...

07/19/2021

A fascinating look at one of the most unique vessels afloat today

One of the most unique vessels serving in the Coast Guard Auxiliary today, the Surface Facility “Naval War College” is a literal floating piece of American military history. As the name suggests, the aptly named “Naval War College” began its service life as a U.S. Navy Command Cutter (offici...

07/01/2021

As we prepare to commemorate the 245th anniversary of America’s independence, it’s easy to forget that one of the most cherished artifacts in our nation’s history wasn’t even present during the Revolutionary War. Barely three decades after General Washington’s victory at the Battle of...

06/30/2021

On this day in history, June 30th, 1688, following decades of war, the British Parliament with the support of their countrymen led the Glorious Revolution. Finally fulfilling the original promise of Magna Carta, Parliament deposed King James II and extended an invitation to his daughter, Mary, to take the throne of England. This historic revolution led to both a bill of rights and the creation of a new form of government, the constitutional monarchy, under which the UK still operates today.

06/24/2021

Olivia Juliette Ho**er was born February 12th, 1915 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She and her family later moved the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, an area then known as Black Wall Street. On May 31st, 1921, Ho**er and her family survived their home being stormed by a group of white men carrying to

06/23/2021

The Coast Guard Reserve Act of 1939, the result of the hard work and dedication of people like Admiral Russell Waesche and Malcolm Boylan, was introduced on the floor of the House of Representatives by Congressman Schuyler Otis Bland of Virginia as House Bill 5966 on April 24, 1939 and became law wi

05/18/2021

Today, the Davis Cultural Heritage Consulting team joins with our colleagues and friends around the world in celebrating the 2021 International Museum Day. First organized by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in 1977, International Museum Day both celebrates museums impact on society which also raising awareness to their continued important role they play in all our lives. We encourage you to visit a museum, join as a member, or simply thank a museum professional today as the industry begins to process of returning to normal following the global pandemic!

04/22/2021

Thanks again to the Norman Chamber of Commerce for helping celebrate our next steps in the community!