1850s Christmas Traditions program ends
December 13, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
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Visit Hunter’s Home—the only remaining pre–Civil War plantation home in Oklahoma—for a genuine 1850s Christmas experience from Tuesday, November 19 through Friday, December 13.
During these dates, the historic home will be decorated in the style of an 1850s Christmas. Did you know that in 1850, the Christmas holiday was just beginning to include traditions we know today? In that time period, Christmas was a more modest occasion. Christmas trees may have been just generous branches, small in size, and set up on a tabletop or the corner table of a room. The art of homemade decorations might have included making paper or straw decorations or stringing popcorn, cranberries, dried fruit rings, and beads with a needle and thread. Handwritten missives took the place of Christmas cards, and gifts, if given, were hand-sewn and hand-made.
Be sure to attend the Christmas Open House at Hunter’s Home from noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday, December 15.
