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July 2018
“Pack Your Wagon/Pioneer Crafts” Pioneer Family Fun Day, Pioneer Woman Museum
The Pioneer Woman Museum in Ponca City continues its summer program series for families on select Saturdays in July. Pioneer Family Fun Days will be held from 10:30 am to 1 pm and will include hands-on, family-friendly activities. The theme for July 28 will be “Pack Your Wagon/Pioneer Crafts.” The cost is $5 per child, or $20 for families with four or more children. This also includes free admission to the museum! All activities are come and go and appropriate…
Find out more »August 2018
Sonic Summer Movies: Oklahoma! Sing-A-Long, Myriad Botanical Gardens
Visit the Myriad Botanical Gardens for Sonic Summer Movies: Oklahoma! Sing-A-Long on Wednesday, August, 1, from 9 to 10:30 pm. The event will include closed-caption titles and a sing-a-long! This event is presented by SONIC, America’s Drive-In and sponsored by the Oklahoma History Center. The Myriad Botanical Gardens’ Sonic Summer Movies are held on the on The Devon Lawn. Enjoy movies, activities, food, and lots of fun. Thanks to SONIC, these movies are completely FREE. Come early to get a…
Find out more »Will Rogers and Wiley Post Fly-In, Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch
On Saturday, August 11, Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch near Oologah will host the annual Will Rogers and Wiley Post Fly-In. Gates open at 7:30 am with free admission, though donations are appreciated. The event will take place from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm on the 2,000-foot grass strip adjacent to Oologah Lake. Pilots will fly the Oklahoma skies and land on the grass strip, a few yards from the home in which Will Rogers was born on November 4, 1879.…
Find out more »Family Day at the Ranch, Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch
Experience life on a nineteenth-century ranch near Oologah! Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch will host Family Day at the Ranch on Saturday, August 18, from 1 to 3 pm. Hands-on activities and demonstrations will give visitors a glimpse of everyday life on the ranch during Will Rogers’s childhood. This month’s event will feature a cornhusk doll make-and-take activity with the Rogers County Cherokee youth group. Visitors also can enjoy a scenic stroll through the expansive property, with beautiful views of Oologah…
Find out more »Back to School Bash, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Teachers, school staff, and their families are invited to spend an evening at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum to discover what museums and student-based organizations across the Oklahoma City metro and around the state are offering in the upcoming school year. The Back to School Bash will be held at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum on Thursday, August 23, from 5 to 7 pm. The Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma History Center are among the…
Find out more »Cherokee National Holiday activities, Hunter’s Home
Visit Tahlequah and Park Hill for the Cherokee National Holiday celebration to be held Labor Day weekend—Friday, August 31, through Sunday, September 2. This is one of the most enduring traditions of Cherokee Nation and all are invited to join the celebration of Cherokee heritage, cultural awareness, and reuniting families. Thousands of Cherokees and visitors from across the United States and abroad make the pilgrimage to the historic Cherokee Nation capital in Tahlequah to renew friendships and celebrate the Cherokee…
Find out more »September 2018
Septemberfest, Oklahoma History Center
Don't miss the 22nd annual Septemberfest on Saturday, September 8, from 10 am to 3 pm at the Oklahoma History Center. This free festival is hosted by the First Family, Friends of the Mansion, and the Oklahoma History Center. This year’s Septemberfest theme is “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!” This celebrates both the 75th anniversary of the Broadway debut of the famous musical and the exhibit now on display at the Oklahoma History Center. This free fall festival is open to…
Find out more »Family Day at the Ranch, Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch
Experience life on a nineteenth-century ranch near Oologah! Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch will host Family Day at the Ranch on Saturday, September 8, from 1 to 3 pm. Hands-on activities and demonstrations will give visitors a glimpse of everyday life on the ranch during Will Rogers’s childhood. This month is a special harvesting party! Guests will learn about harvesting crops from the growing season. Attendees can visit the carpentry station to build a crate, then use the crate to collect…
Find out more »Smithsonian magazine’s annual Museum Day, various OHS museums and sites
Multiple OHS museums and sites will participate in Smithsonian magazine's annual Museum Day on Saturday, September 22. On this day only, participating museums across the United States emulate the spirit of the Smithsonian Institution's Washington, DC-based facilities, which offer free admission every day. On September 22, participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day Live! ticket. The Museum Day ticket provides free admission for two people on Saturday, September 22, 2018. To…
Find out more »14th Annual Western Heritage Weekend and Tom Mix Festival, Tom Mix Museum
Dewey keeps the spirit of Tom Mix and the Old West alive with the 14th Annual Western Heritage Weekend and Tom Mix Festival on Saturday, September 22, and Sunday, September 23. Voted True West magazine’s “Reader’s Choice for Best Old West Event,” this two-day festival features the best in family fun and historical entertainment. Dewey will come alive with the sounds of longhorn cattle, stagecoaches, and even a bank robbery. Be sure to visit the Tom Mix Museum, which will…
Find out more »October 2018
Antique Agriculture Festival, Hunter’s Home
Visit Hunter's Home in Park Hill for the Antique Agriculture Festival October 5–7, 2018. It is almost harvest season and once again the staff at Hunter’s Home are gearing up for winter preparations. Good friends from all over the region will gather together to help bring in the harvest, plow the fields, preserve produce, spin and weave wool. This exciting three-day event is fun for the whole family. Visitors will experience nineteenth-century agriculture and heritage farming on a historic 1850s…
Find out more »Pawnee Bill Kids Corral, Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum
Visit Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum for Pawnee Bill Kids Corral, a fun event for children eight and younger. Join us on Saturday from 10:30 am to noon and enjoy a themed storytime, arts and crafts, and snacks!
Find out more »“1893 Land Run” Family Saturday program, Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center
On Saturday, October 13, the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid will host a special Family Saturday program. In conjunction with the museum’s newest exhibit entitled The 1893 Land Race: A Legacy of Community, guests can participate in family-friendly activities related to the 1893 land run and its legacy. Join in the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the 1893 Cherokee Outlet Opening—the largest land run in American history! For more information please call 580-237-1907.
Find out more »Family Day at the Ranch, Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch
Experience life on a nineteenth-century ranch near Oologah! Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch will host Family Day at the Ranch on Saturday, October 13, from 1 to 3 pm. Hands-on activities and demonstrations will give visitors a glimpse of everyday life on the ranch during Will Rogers’s childhood. This month’s activities will feature an open fire and chuck wagon cooking. Visitors also can enjoy a scenic stroll through the expansive property, with beautiful views of Oologah Lake, a longhorn herd, and…
Find out more »Archaeology Day, Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center
October is Archaeology Month, and to celebrate the Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center will hold a special day with a lecture and a guided walk on Saturday, October 20, 2018. Archaeology Month is sponsored and promoted by the Oklahoma Anthropological Society and the Oklahoma Public Archaeology Network and includes many more events throughout October. Lectures about the prehistory and history of this region will start at 11 am. There also will be a guided tour of the site at 2 pm…
Find out more »Chuck Wagon Gathering and Fundraising Dinner, Chisholm Trail Museum
Join us at the Chisholm Trail Museum on Saturday, October 20, 2018, for our first annual Chuck Wagon Gathering & Fundraising Dinner. From 10 am to 3 pm, visitors can check out a variety of working chuck wagons from across the region and watch cast iron cooking at its best. Our fundraiser dinner will begin at 5 pm and includes chicken-fried steak, potatoes, beans, biscuits, and cobbler prepared by the chuck wagons. In addition to dinner, the evening will feature…
Find out more »Fall in Love with Pawnee Bill Ranch festival, Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum
On Saturday, October 20, 2018, Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum will host Fall in Love with Pawnee Bill Ranch, a fall festival full of family activities from noon to 3 pm. Come and enjoy blacksmithing demonstrations at the blacksmith shop, children's crafts and refreshments at the museum, a hay maze, and activities in the children's pumpkin patch. Visitors can also enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides at the big barn, tractor-pulled hayrides through the exhibit pasture, and multiple photography stations.
Find out more »History Never Dies, Oklahoma Territorial Museum
Visit the Oklahoma Territorial Museum for History Never Dies, a family-friendly Halloween carnival, on Saturday, October 20, from 5 to 7 pm. This year’s theme will be “The Wizard of Oz” to lead into the museum’s next exhibit in the Carnegie Library entitled The Yellow Brick Road to Woman's Suffrage, which will open in early November. This display will be the first in a yearlong series of exhibits across the state that will tell the story of Oklahoma women fighting for the…
Find out more »November 2018
Fall Bake Day, Fort Gibson Historic Site
Visit Fort Gibson Historic Site for Fall Bake Day on Saturday, November 10, at 10 am. The aroma of fresh-baked bread will fill the air on Garrison Hill as OHS staff and volunteers bring the bakehouse to life. Enjoy bread making demonstrations in the original wood-fired oven from 1863. Visitors can even sample the finished product! Purchase a coffee mug in the gift shop and the bakers will be happy to fill it up. Bake Day is a fundraiser and…
Find out more »Will’s Country Christmas, Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch
Visit Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch in Oologah for Will’s Country Christmas on Friday, November 30, and Saturday, December 1, from 5 to 9 pm. The house will be decorated much as it was when Will’s parents entertained for the holidays. Be sure to bring your camera! Family-friendly entertainment will include storytelling, hayrides, Wild West shootouts, photos with Santa, crafts, 19th-century games, carriage rides, music, vendors, and food trucks. Admission and children’s activities, including photos with Santa, are free. For more…
Find out more »December 2018
Holiday Open House and Pawnee Bill Ranch Association’s annual meeting, Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum
On Saturday, December 1, Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum will host its annual Holiday Open House from 11:30 am to 3 pm. The Pawnee Bill Museum will be beautifully transformed for the holiday season, and the decorations will stay up for the entire month of December. Holiday Open House activities will include surrey rides outside (weather permitting), a children’s craft area inside the museum, a silent auction fundraiser. and hot cocoa and cookies. During the Holiday Open House, the Pawnee…
Find out more »Deck the Halls, Oklahoma History Center
The Oklahoma History Center will host Deck the Halls on Saturday, December 1, from 10 am to noon. Visitors will enjoy holiday music played on the Oklahoma History Center's Kilgen Organ, arts and crafts for children, and the perfect backdrop for holiday photos! The event is free with paid admission to the museum.
Find out more »Christmas in the Village, Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center
Visit the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center on Friday, December 7, for Christmas in the Village. Bring your family and be enchanted by the Heritage Center’s beautifully adorned Victorian Christmas village all aglow. Visitors will escape to a simpler time and experience Christmas in the Cherokee Outlet as it was more than 100 years ago. Children’s choirs from various schools and churches in the greater Enid area will be singing in the village church, the village buildings will be open…
Find out more »Guthrie’s Historic Homes Tour and wassail at the Carnegie Library, Oklahoma Territorial Museum
The Carnegie Library will be part of Guthrie’s Historic Homes Tour on Saturday, December 8, from 10 am to 4 pm. Guthrie’s finest homes, churches, and the Carnegie Library will be dressed for the season. Visitors will enjoy tales of the early days of Oklahoma’s first capital. The Carnegie Library will be serving wassail to warm the hearts and hands of tour participants. For more information please call 405-282-1889.
Find out more »Holiday Open House, Chisholm Trail Museum and A. J. Seay Mansion
Visit the Chisholm Trail Museum and A. J. Seay Mansion for a Holiday Open House on Saturday, December 8, from 1 to 3 pm. The museum will offer family-friendly entertainment including music, holiday-themed crafts, ornament decorating, cookies and cocoa, living history characters, and more! Activities are free with museum admission and are available while supplies last. Please call 405-375-5176 for more information.
Find out more »18th Annual Christmas Open House, Hunter’s Home
On Sunday, December 9, from 1 to 4 pm, Hunter’s Home will host its 18th annual Christmas Open House. Visitors will see the home and general store decorated for the holiday season and will enjoy cider and snacks while sitting around a roaring fire. For more information please call 918-456-2751 or visit www.facebook.com/huntershomeok.
Find out more »Christmas at the Fort, Fort Towson Historic Site
Join us at the Fort Towson Historic Site for Christmas at the Fort on Saturday, December 15, from 1 to 3 pm. Visitors can bundle up and enjoy a riding tour of the grounds that will end at the sutler store, where there will be coffee, cocoa, and refreshments. There also will be plenty of opportunities to take pictures with Santa. For more information about the event, please call John Davis at 580-873-2634 or email jdavis@okhistory.org. Fort Towson Historic Site…
Find out more »Christmas Open House and live Southern Gospel music by Gary Booze *rescheduled*, Sod House Museum
Celebrate Christmas the pioneer way at the Sod House Museum’s Christmas Open House on Saturday, December 15, from 1 to 3 pm. Share in the festivities with songs, traditional decorations, and treats provided by the Friends of the Sod House. Gary Booze of Aline will share Christmas and southern gospel music during the event. Southern gospel music has been around for many years, it began as a blend of early mountain music, cowboy music, and music from plantations of the…
Find out more »Civil War Christmas Party, Honey Springs Battlefield and Visitor Center
Honey Springs Battlefield and Visitor Center is excited to announce its first-ever Civil War Christmas themed event to be held on Saturday, December 15, from 3 to 5 pm. The event will be fun for adults and children alike. Children are encouraged to bring their smiles and wish lists to the Visitor Center, where they will have the opportunity to sit, talk, and take photographs with Santa. There also will be Christmas crafts, a coloring contest, Civil War soldiers dressed in…
Find out more »March 2019
May Lillie’s 150th Birthday Celebration
Celebrate May Lillie’s 150th birthday at the Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum! A come-and-go birthday party will be held on Sunday, March 10, from 2 to 4 p.m. Cast members from Pawnee Bill’s Original Wild West Show will be on hand to welcome guests and add to the festivities. Of course, Wild West performers who portray Pawnee Bill (Kevin Webb) and May (Katrina Fenton) will be in attendance. There will be cake, punch, finger foods, and fun activities for all.…
Find out more »32nd annual Family Kite Flite Day
Celebrate the beginning of spring at the 32nd annual Family Kite Flite Day at Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center. Family Kite Flite Day will be held from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 16, 2019. This will be a free admission day at the site, although donations are appreciated. It will be a great day for families and folks of all ages. Each year since 1987, Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center has hosted a day of spring fun and learning…
Find out more »Spring Break activities
Parents, give your children the opportunity to experience childhood as Will Rogers would have on his Indian Territory Ranch this March! Spring Break activities will be held March 18–22 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Will Rogers Memorial Museum and Birthplace Ranch. There will be new activities each day focusing on different aspects of Will's life, including sports, horses and riding, aviation, writing, and entertainment. Activities at Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore: Monday, March 18 Wednesday, March 20 Friday,…
Find out more »Spring Break activities
Parents, give your children the opportunity to experience childhood as Will Rogers would have on his Indian Territory Ranch this March! Spring Break activities will be held March 18–22 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Will Rogers Memorial Museum and Birthplace Ranch. There will be new activities each day focusing on different aspects of Will's life, including sports, horses and riding, aviation, writing, and entertainment. Activities at Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore: Monday, March 18 Wednesday, March 20 Friday,…
Find out more »Oklahoma Farm-to-Table Family Festival
The Oklahoma History Center will host the Oklahoma Farm-to-Table Family Festival on Saturday, March 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visitors will experience the rich agricultural heritage of America from colonial times to modern day innovations with hands-on activities and freshly cooked food. There will be more than 20 exhibitors and vendors on hand to engage visitors and provide free, hands-on activities. Samples of healthy snacks, Dutch oven cooking, chuck wagon cooking, and wholesome products from a local farmer’s market…
Find out more »Spring Bake Day
Visit Fort Gibson Historic Site for Spring Bake Day on Saturday, March 30, at 10 a.m. The aroma of fresh-baked bread will fill the air on Garrison Hill as OHS staff and volunteers bring the bakehouse to life. Enjoy bread making demonstrations in the original wood-fired oven from 1863. Visitors can even sample the finished product! Purchase a coffee mug in the gift shop and the bakers will be happy to fill it up. Bake Day is a fundraiser and…
Find out more »April 2019
Family Day at the Ranch
The Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch will host Family Day on Saturday, April 6, from 1 to 3 p.m. Jacob Krumwiede, Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch manager, will introduce families to preparing and planting kitchen gardens. In a spot behind the ranch house, Krumwiede will describe the purpose of a kitchen garden, vegetables and herbs that would have been planted by Will Rogers’s mother and how that produce would have been used. Visitors will help prepare the soil and plant seeds they…
Find out more »“Trappers, Traders, and Hunters of the Plains” living history event
On Saturday, April 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Chisholm Trail Museum in Kingfisher will host a variety of living history interpreters for “Trappers, Traders, and Hunters of the Plains,” a day filled with adventure. Trappers, traders, and hunters lived a rugged life providing pelts, furs and more for businesses in the East. Visitors can explore the lives of early trappers and traders, buffalo hunters and more. Living history demonstrations will be ongoing throughout the day, and activities…
Find out more »Easter Egg Hunt
Join in the fun at an Easter Egg Hunt on the grounds of Fort Towson Historic Site on Thursday, April 18. The fort grounds will be sectioned off for students to hunt eggs hidden by teachers and parents. Please register for the hunt to ensure that enough areas are prepared. For more information about the event or to register, please call John Davis at 580-873-2634 or email jdavis@okhistory.org. Fort Towson Historic Site is located north of US 70 near Fort…
Find out more »Optimist Club Easter Egg Hunt
Visit the Will Rogers Memorial Museum for the annual Optimist Club Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 20. The egg hunt begins promptly at 11:30 a.m. on the museum grounds, so be sure to arrive early. The Easter Bunny will hide thousands of candy-filled eggs for the children to find, and some eggs will contain special prizes. With the generous support of Claremore businesses and individuals, the Optimist Club has hosted the Easter Egg Hunt in Claremore for many years.…
Find out more »90th annual Easter Egg Hunt
On Saturday, April 20, the Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum will host its 90th annual Easter Egg Hunt. The Egg Hunt is cosponsored by the Pawnee Chamber of Commerce and will begin promptly at 10 a.m., signaled by Pawnee Bill (portrayed by Kevin Webb) firing his pistol. The egg hunt attracts hundreds of children and their families and is spread out over many acres of the historic site. Thousands of eggs will be hidden, including prize eggs containing money and…
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