Living History Education Day, Hunter’s Home

Hunter’s Home (formerly known as the George M. Murrell Home) in Park Hill will host its eighth annual Living History Education Day on Friday, May 4, with two sessions: 9:30–11:30 am and 11:30 am–1:30 pm. Registration is now open. Teachers are invited to bring their students and experience life in nineteenth-century Indian Territory through exciting hands-on presentations by OHS staff and costumed living historians. School groups will enjoy lawn games, live music, animals of the plantation, gardening, food preparation, fiber arts, and blacksmithing demonstrations. Tours of the 1845 mansion also will be available.

The public picnic area and playground will be reserved exclusively for Living History Education Day participants. The event is open to public, private, and homeschool groups. The cost is $4 per student, with free admission for teachers, adult chaperones, and bus drivers. To register a class or group, please email huntershome@okhistory.org or call 918-456-2751. The Murrell Home is located three miles south of Tahlequah at 19479 East Murrell Home Road in Park Hill.