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Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center will continue its educational mission after it re-opens in September.
Turkey Creek School at Humphrey Heritage Village, where children can spend a day as it was in 1910, will continue to educate children, as well.

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February 27, 2010

By Cass Rains, Staff Writer Enid News and Eagle The Enid News and Eagle Sat Feb 27, 2010, 10:11 PM CST

ENID — When the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center opens its doors in September it will again play a crucial role in education for the area.

“We will be working very closely with area schools,” said Andi Holland, president of Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc. “Enid Public Schools and other schools in our region are already very close partners of ours.”

Holland said the center has plans for several programs to help educate area students. One program, Discovery Trunk, will send scholars into area schools in character as historical figures or from a certain period of history.

“The presenter will go out fully dressed in costume and show articles in their particular trunk to present information about that topic,” she said. The presenters will include a land run-era boomer and a woman from the Victorian era.

Holland said the program is designed to engage students and help them develop a higher level of understanding for what life was like for people in those times.

“It will instill in them some of the characteristic of our pioneers and a better understanding of what it took to make a living and to survive in the Cherokee Strip.”

Holland said the center will continue to offer its Brown Bag lecture series, as well as present speakers and scholars. The Turkey Creek School program at Humphrey Heritage Village, where children can spend a day as it was in 1910, will continue to educate children, as well.

Holland and Center Director Sally Soelle said Cherokee Strip Heritage Center also will boast a research center with available archives.

“If a scholar is working on an article, journal or book and wants to search our database for material to use or if we have some photos to use for a book or article we have those resources now,” Soelle said.

She said the center will reach out to genealogists through Internet availability, with access to Ancestry.com, a well-known site with records relating to genealogy. Soelle said archives will include land plats, cemetery information, maps and other archival documents, and the center plans to acquire more records from throughout the area.

“We are interested in reaching out and locating and acquiring records that will help Garfield County and other surrounding counties so we can truly serve as a regional resource,” Soelle said.

She said a 2,000-square-foot exhibit area will feature traveling exhibits that will rotate about three times a year. She said the same space will be used to bring in scholars and speakers.

“We are looking right now at scholars who could speak on topics of interest to us, speak on the Outlet or Oklahoma history in general,” she said.

She said the center’s director of education also will help children learn about the permanent exhibits by developing materials for teachers.

“When the permanent exhibits are constructed, Aaron Preston will be developing curricular material for teachers to use with each exhibit,” Soelle said. “He will also be developing some programs for children. We are very interested in reaching out to our younger patrons.”쇓

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