SEPTEMBER FEST
September 12th from 10:00 to 4:00
A GREAT FAMILY EVENT
There will be no admission charge for the event. Come early to have convenient, close-in parking at the History Center.
Entertainment, demonstrations, hands-on activities, and the museum galleries offer a great variety of fun, educational opportunities for everyone.
Scheduled Indoor Events for 2009 include five diverse acts that will perform forty-five minute sets in the Devon Great Hall under the historic Winnie Mae airplane.
10:00 Lewis Johnson Indian story teller and flute player
11:00 Monty Harper's Kids' Songs
12:00 Classen High School Jazz Band
1:00 The Celtic Praise dance troop
2:00 Sugar Free All Stars kid friendly rock and roll
Also indoors:
All the museum galleries including the new rock and roll exhibit will be open with free admission.
The Research Division will be making bookmarks with children.
Spinners and cloth weavers will do demonstrations.
There will be origami and face painting by the Asian Society
Visits with Bazark the Robot
Plein Air painters on the third floor bridge demonstrating their painting
The Hands-on History Cart
The storyteller and flute player, Lewis Johnson, will be in the Indian gallery.
Betsy the Queen of all the cows milking simulator will be available for those who want to try their hand.
Outdoors on the grounds of the History Center, we will have activities including:
Cowboys with their horses
Making tie-dye bandanas
Wood carvers showing carving and finished products
A cowboy cook and his chuck wagon
Civil War infantry and artillery their equipment
Signal corps using semaphore, flag signaling
The bullwhip master
Guitar and mandolin craftsman
Presentations on the early years in Indian Territory
Wildlife programs with Critter Tales and Martin Nature Center
Pawnee Bill with his horse
Medicine Man Show
Silversmithing
Blacksmithing
19th century photographer
Gun collection
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Bruce Fisher and George Henderson 
Discuss Civil Rights History
Recently Bruce Fisher, Curator of the African-American Exhibit at the Oklahoma History Center, and Dr. George Henderson, a highly honored Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma and a nationally renowned scholar on human rights past and present, recently joined OETA personality Dick Pryor on the "Oklahoma Forum" television program.
Fisher, Henderson, and Pryor had an interesting and enlightening discussion on the Civil Rights movement in Oklahoma. To see this program, please click on www.oeta.tv/okforum.html. |
Cherokee Strip Days Celebratory Dinner and Preview of the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 6:00 PM
Humphrey Heritage Village, Enid
On Friday, September 18 at 6pm Cherokee Strip Days will be celebrated with a dinner and preview tour of the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center. This event will take place at the Humphrey Heritage Village and proceeds will benefit the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Endowment.
The cost is $40 per person, or $75 per couple and dress is period or casual. Please RSVP by September 14. Call (580) 234-8999 for more information.
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SHPO SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT FOR FY 2010 PROGRAM
By Melvena Heisch
Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer
The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) will hold a public meeting at 10:30 am, on Friday, September 11, 2009, in the Oklahoma History Center Classroom, 2401 N. Laird Avenue, Oklahoma City, to provide information about the statewide preservation program and to receive public input for development of the Fiscal Year 2010 Historic Preservation Fund application. The SHPO expects to receive approximately $750,000 from the U.S. Department of the Interior's FY 2010 Historic Preservation Fund to carry out its programs and operations. Ten percent of the award is reserved for pass-through grants to Certified Local Governments (CLGs).
Under the National Historic Preservation Act, the SHPO has responsibility for administration of the federal historic preservation program in Oklahoma. In brief, the purpose of the program is to encourage preservation of the state's archeological and historic resources for everyone's benefit.
Tomorrow's Legacy: Oklahoma's Statewide Preservation Plan (2005), available from the SHPO or at www.okhistory.org/shpo/stateplan.htm, sets forth the goals and objectives for historic preservation efforts in the state, including various SHPO programs.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, your written comments and suggestions are welcome. You may complete the SHPO's "Project Suggestion Form" and return it by 5:00 pm, Friday, September 11, 2009. Just call the SHPO at 405/521-6249 or send an e-mail message to Betty Harris at bharris@okhistory.org to have the form sent to you. You may also obtain it at www.okhistory.org/shpo/shpoforms.htm.
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