Bob Dylan Center opens in Tulsa
Bob Dylan kept everything
Today, the Bob Dylan Center opens in Tulsa.
The grand opening celebration is kicking off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, with officials like Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum in attendance.
The Bob Dylan Archive - A Curveball Comes To Tulsa
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It may come as no surprise but Bob Dylan is a Keeper. Bob and his team have been archiving his music, notebooks, paintings and journey for some five decades. Thousands of artifacts comprise this collection of American treasure. Bob kept just about everything — a massive private archive of a notoriously private person housed in storage facilities in New York, Minneapolis, Malibu and Jersey. So it made headlines when word got out that this secret archive had been sold and was headed to its new permanent, public home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A curveball nobody saw coming. Some archives are for scholars — devotees of a writer, scientist or historical figure. Some archives are tourist attractions.
You never fail to surprise
And what a weird place to put it.
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someday this country may make sense