Field trip to the Cherokee Strip Museum
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January 13, 2017
Henry Peters and Bethany Landrum explore an old hospital room at the Cherokee Strip Museum.
On Dec. 8 (after the Burlington High School girls' basketball game at Northwestern), the third through sixth graders went to tour the Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva. Each class was split into groups with their own tour guides.
The tour was educational for all of the students and teachers. Some people do not realize how different the world is now than it was back then. They have antique dental chairs and tools, salon chairs and hair curlers, a surgery table, and an antique wheelchair in the museum on display. The students were sincerely interested in learning about the iron lung that helped people breathe when they were diagnosed with polio.
They also liked the switchboard. To make a call to anyone, you would have call the operator and she would direct your call to the person you wanted to talk to.
The museum has changed over the years, but it is still educational for everyone.
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