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Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower Is Nominated to Become a UNESCO World Heritage Site

By Rich Fisher

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Tulsa, Oklahoma – On today's show, we're speaking with Scott Perkins, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville. As Perkins describes for us in some detail, the Price Tower --- along with several other key works by Frank Lloyd Wright --- has recently been nominated to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. What would such a designation mean for that museum, for the city of Bartlesville, and for our state? And how are such sites effectively selected by UNESCO (which is, just to cite its full name, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization --- a UN agency that was established in 1945)? In addition to addressing these questions, Perkins also tells us that a free-to-the-public informational presentation (about this nomination and its broader themes and implications) will be held on Saturday the 16th in Bartlesville. It's a "World Heritage Forum," and it happens at 1pm in the Adams Auditorium (in the ConocoPhillips Building) at 411 S. Keeler Avenue. For more about this event, you can call 918-336-4949 or visit http://pricetower.org/media-section/media-release/index.cfm?i=2054. Also on our program today, commentator Ian Shoales is thinking about those Muslims in America (and everywhere else, actually) who might be wondering: "To radicalize, or not to radicalize?"