“Surviving Winter” Theme for Home School Day at Old Independence Regional Museum
Old Independence Regional Museum will host its fall Home School Day on Monday, October 5, 2015 from 9 a.m. to Noon, with sign-in beginning at 8:45 a.m. Registration and a program fee of $5 are due by September 28, 2015. Registration is limited to 50 students.
This fall’s theme will be “Surviving Winter.” Students will learn about different ways people and animals prepare for winter. Programs will include “Hibernating Animals,” “Weather Folklore,” “Harvesting Corn,” and “Food Preservation.” Crafts will include making a corn husk doll, sampling different types of preserved food, and making a pinecone owl.
Old Independence serves a 12-county area: Baxter, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Marion, Poinsett, Sharp, Stone, White, and Woodruff. Parts of these present-day counties comprised the original Independence County in 1820s Arkansas territory.
This humanities program is made possible by local support from Independence County and the City of Batesville, as well as by Challenge Grant Endowment funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Phone: (870) 793-2121
