Family Farm Day at the Heritage Center
Kids, put on your overalls and bring your parents to the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center on Saturday, November 17 to celebrate Family Farm Day. There will be lots of fun activities indoors and out from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Admission to Family Farm Day is free with museum admission.
Family Farm Day includes a fine display of antique trucks and tractors and many of the daily activities that drove the family farm. Families can participate in butter making, rope making, leather work and learn about cotton production and shelling and grinding corn. There will be quilting and textile demonstrations and a variety of crafts to enjoy.
An Enid Fire Department antique fire engine, trucks & tractors will be on display. A pie auction, the staple of any farm community social, will be held at 1 p.m.
In addition to visiting the museum, families will also have the opportunity to tour Farm Life, a thought provoking temporary exhibit about how the family farm has changed over the past century. The exhibit examines what it means for a family to live and work on the land.
Farm Life is divided into four sections: the farmhouse, fields, barn, and gathering places in the larger community. In each section, photographs, objects, and labels tell the story of life on a farm. Through these items and other interactive pieces, audiences who view Farm Life learn about the social, economic, and cultural framework of farms and their surrounding communities. Though the starting place is a Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin farmstead around 1950, universal themes of family and community are addressed, touching on issues that resonate with farming and non-farming viewers alike.
Farm Life will run through January 6, 2013. The exhibit is being brought to our community through the generous sponsorship of Field, Trojan, Long & Claypole, P.C.; Trojan Farms, LLC; and David and Sharon Trojan.
The Farm Life exhibition has been made possible through NEH on the Road, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The rotation of temporary exhibits is administered through the Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, Missouri.
Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors temporary exhibit was created by The Chippewa Valley Museum, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The exhibit is based on a larger exhibition permanently installed in their galleries.
Family Farm Day includes a fine display of antique trucks and tractors and many of the daily activities that drove the family farm. Families can participate in butter making, rope making, leather work and learn about cotton production and shelling and grinding corn. There will be quilting and textile demonstrations and a variety of crafts to enjoy.
An Enid Fire Department antique fire engine, trucks & tractors will be on display. A pie auction, the staple of any farm community social, will be held at 1 p.m.
In addition to visiting the museum, families will also have the opportunity to tour Farm Life, a thought provoking temporary exhibit about how the family farm has changed over the past century. The exhibit examines what it means for a family to live and work on the land.
Farm Life is divided into four sections: the farmhouse, fields, barn, and gathering places in the larger community. In each section, photographs, objects, and labels tell the story of life on a farm. Through these items and other interactive pieces, audiences who view Farm Life learn about the social, economic, and cultural framework of farms and their surrounding communities. Though the starting place is a Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin farmstead around 1950, universal themes of family and community are addressed, touching on issues that resonate with farming and non-farming viewers alike.
Farm Life will run through January 6, 2013. The exhibit is being brought to our community through the generous sponsorship of Field, Trojan, Long & Claypole, P.C.; Trojan Farms, LLC; and David and Sharon Trojan.
The Farm Life exhibition has been made possible through NEH on the Road, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The rotation of temporary exhibits is administered through the Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, Missouri.
Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors temporary exhibit was created by The Chippewa Valley Museum, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The exhibit is based on a larger exhibition permanently installed in their galleries.
