Bring the family and start the New Year by learning a heritage craft at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center's first Family Saturday of the year. On January 18, 2014, from 1 - 3 p.m. families will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of heritage crafts including knitting, weaving and quilting. There will be plenty of fun activities and crafts on hand for all ages to enjoy. Family Saturday activities will be held indoors in the J. E. and L. E. Mabee Foundation Temporary Exhibit Gallery.   

Family Saturday activities are held monthly and are free with admission to the museum. For more information on Family Saturdays or other CSRHC programs, please contact the Heritage Center at 580-237-1907 or www.csrhc.org.The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center is located at 507 S. Fourth Street in Enid, Oklahoma.

Learn the history and techniques for hand quilting at the Oklahoma History Center on Saturday, January 25, 2014. The class will run from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM. Students will practice hand quilting using a rocking stitch on a provided quilt frame and printed quilt top. Class size is limited and registration is required. Ages 13 and up are welcome and previous quilting experience is not required. Cost for the class is $100 and students will each take home a project and a new quilt frame.

For more information or to register for the class please contact us at  education@okhistory.org or by phone at (405) 522-3602.

The Oklahoma Historical Society's John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick Research Center has received 20,000 pages of Oklahoma newspapers previously thought to have been lost to history. The unique donation of historic Oklahoma newspapers was a gift from the Kansas Historical Society after a recent inventory discovered the newspapers in its collections.

"These titles are all from before Oklahoma statehood and are a wonderful addition to the OHS newspaper archives," said Director of Research Chad Williams. New titles and issues include: Cherokee Sentinel (1894-95), Daily Optic (1889), Hennessey Courier (1890), West and South (1891) and the Yukon Weekly Courier (1891-92). Williams said, "The collection is in remarkable condition and will be digitized and added to the OHS online website 'The Gateway to Oklahoma History' where each page will be word searchable and freely available to researchers." 

"The Gateway to Oklahoma History" is an online repository sponsored by the OHS and the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. Visiting the site allows you to browse more than 800,000 Oklahoma newspaper pages dating from the 1840s-1920s. To search the Gateway, visit http://gateway.okhistory.org/. For more information, contact the OHS Research Center at 405-522-5207 or newspaper@okhistory.org.