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November 2026
2026 Oklahoma Folklife Festival
The Folklife Festival at the Oklahoma History Center will be held on Saturday, November 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. This festival aims to engage visitors by providing opportunities to experience diverse cultures and traditions. Visitors will be encouraged to participate in various activities rather than just observe. The festival’s objectives include sparking curiosity, facilitating intercultural exchange, creating participatory experiences, and collaborating with cultural practitioners, communities, and heritage professionals. The…
Find out more »“Cards and Board Games: Entertainment in the 1830s” program
A living history program held on Saturday, November 7, 14, and 21 will explore entertainment in the 1830s. Site interpreter Seth Goff will demonstrate and teach visitors how games were set up and played. You can learn more about how 19th-century soldiers and civilians entertained themselves with faro and card games. Whenever the soldiers at Fort Gibson had authorized downtime—or whenever enlisted soldiers decided to take a “break” at the expense of Uncle Sam and their officers, there were many…
Find out more »“Cards and Board Games: Entertainment in the 1830s” program
A living history program held on Saturday, November 7, 14, and 21 will explore entertainment in the 1830s. Site interpreter Seth Goff will demonstrate and teach visitors how games were set up and played. You can learn more about how 19th-century soldiers and civilians entertained themselves with faro and card games. Whenever the soldiers at Fort Gibson had authorized downtime—or whenever enlisted soldiers decided to take a “break” at the expense of Uncle Sam and their officers, there were many…
Find out more »Blacksmithing Demonstration
On Saturday, November 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School will hold a Blacksmithing Demonstration in the blacksmith shop. Guests can enjoy watching the craftsmen work, and families are welcome to attend and watch the demonstrations inside the Blacksmith Shop on the grounds of the Cherokee Strip Museum. For more information, please call 580-336-2405. Free admission for all, but donations are always appreciated.
Find out more »December 2026
Winter Decorating for Christmas at Fort Gibson
For one week, from December 1 through 5, visitors will be treated to staff preparing the palisade for winter with festive early-1800s decorations at the Fort Gibson Historic Site. Before the Civil War, Christmas decorations were lovingly put up for the holidays, though not quite as extravagant as today! Decorations of mistletoe and other greenery, interspersed with fruits and brightly colored ribbon, were commonplace and will be up in several rooms at the bottom of the hill. Christmas was also…
Find out more »Winter Decorating for Christmas at Fort Gibson
For one week, from December 1 through 5, visitors will be treated to staff preparing the palisade for winter with festive early-1800s decorations at the Fort Gibson Historic Site. Before the Civil War, Christmas decorations were lovingly put up for the holidays, though not quite as extravagant as today! Decorations of mistletoe and other greenery, interspersed with fruits and brightly colored ribbon, were commonplace and will be up in several rooms at the bottom of the hill. Christmas was also…
Find out more »Winter Decorating for Christmas at Fort Gibson
For one week, from December 1 through 5, visitors will be treated to staff preparing the palisade for winter with festive early-1800s decorations at the Fort Gibson Historic Site. Before the Civil War, Christmas decorations were lovingly put up for the holidays, though not quite as extravagant as today! Decorations of mistletoe and other greenery, interspersed with fruits and brightly colored ribbon, were commonplace and will be up in several rooms at the bottom of the hill. Christmas was also…
Find out more »Winter Decorating for Christmas at Fort Gibson
For one week, from December 1 through 5, visitors will be treated to staff preparing the palisade for winter with festive early-1800s decorations at the Fort Gibson Historic Site. Before the Civil War, Christmas decorations were lovingly put up for the holidays, though not quite as extravagant as today! Decorations of mistletoe and other greenery, interspersed with fruits and brightly colored ribbon, were commonplace and will be up in several rooms at the bottom of the hill. Christmas was also…
Find out more »Winter Decorating for Christmas at Fort Gibson
For one week, from December 1 through 5, visitors will be treated to staff preparing the palisade for winter with festive early-1800s decorations at the Fort Gibson Historic Site. Before the Civil War, Christmas decorations were lovingly put up for the holidays, though not quite as extravagant as today! Decorations of mistletoe and other greenery, interspersed with fruits and brightly colored ribbon, were commonplace and will be up in several rooms at the bottom of the hill. Christmas was also…
Find out more »January 2027
History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »February 2027
History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »March 2027
Education Day
The Fort Towson Historic Site will host a day full of educational experiences on Thursday, March 4, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. The site will bring history to life with a free, public living history education day. It will teach what life was like at Fort Towson more than 180 years ago, offering multiple learning experiences about life at the military outpost during the 1840s, when it served as a vital resupply point for soldiers headed south to engage…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »April 2027
History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »May 2027
History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »June 2027
History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »July 2027
History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »August 2027
History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »September 2027
History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »October 2027
Family Farm Day
Family Farm Day will be held at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 2. Family Farm Day is a family-friendly event that teaches all about the farming traditions of Northwest Oklahoma, where families can learn how different grains and products were grown and utilized by the diverse cultures that immigrated to the region. As always, enjoy pumpkin painting, pony rides, vintage tractors, live music, and more!
Find out more »Archaeology Day
Celebrate Archaeology Day at Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center. This family-oriented event will take place on Saturday, October 16, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants can learn about artifact sorting, atlatl throwing, and archaeological flotation demonstrations. The flotation demonstrations will use simple equipment to show how archaeologists extract plant material and other items from the soil. An atlatl is an ancient dart-throwing tool that was used for thousands of years in North America until the bow and arrow replaced it.…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »November 2027
Battle of Honey Springs Education Day
On Friday, November 5, students from schools across the state will have the opportunity to explore education stations teaching topics related to the Civil War in Indian Territory and the battle itself. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., living historians will demonstrate military drills, cooking techniques, everyday activities for soldiers, and civilian life. Numerous sutlers will be selling 19th-century reproduction military equipment, clothing, books, and souvenirs, and food vendors will also be on-site. Pre-registration is required and will be opening…
Find out more »Battle of Honey Springs Reenactment
Honey Springs Battlefield offers a biennial multi-day event, which begins with an Education Day for school groups on Friday, November 5. Activities continue on Saturday, November 6, and Sunday, November 7, with self-guided tours through the Union, Confederate, and civilian camps, and a reenactment at 1 p.m. Visitors can experience military drills, demonstrations, and living history programs, and take a walk through Sutler’s Row, which features a number of vendors selling clothes, books, souvenirs, and reproduction nineteenth-century military equipment. Visitors…
Find out more »History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip
Travel back to the days of the Cherokee Outlet and immerse yourself in History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, the living history adventure at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Held year-round on the first and third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., this event transforms the five historic buildings of Humphrey Heritage Village into a bustling scene from the territorial era. Costumed interpreters fill the village with stories and demonstrations from the late…
Find out more »Battle of Honey Springs Reenactment
Honey Springs Battlefield offers a biennial multi-day event, which begins with an Education Day for school groups on Friday, November 5. Activities continue on Saturday, November 6, and Sunday, November 7, with self-guided tours through the Union, Confederate, and civilian camps, and a reenactment at 1 p.m. Visitors can experience military drills, demonstrations, and living history programs, and take a walk through Sutler’s Row, which features a number of vendors selling clothes, books, souvenirs, and reproduction nineteenth-century military equipment. Visitors…
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