Toys and Chores in an Ozark Home

Monday, June 19, 2023
Noon to 2 p.m.
Huntsville Public Library, 827 N College St., Huntsville, AR 72740
Admission: free

In celebration of the Shiloh Museum’s Ozark Home, Beyond the Frame exhibit, we are hostingA girl with short dark hair with bangs and a hair ribbon sits in a chair wearing a white dress, dark stockings and shoes. She is clutching a doll with long, blonde hair. a series of events featuring toys and leisure in partnership with several public libraries in our mission area. This one is from noon to 2 p.m. Monday, June 19, at the Huntsville Public Library, 827 N College St., Huntsville, AR 72740. We invite you to play with old-fashioned toys and explore how these toys may have helped develop skills needed for various chores around an 1800s household in the Ozarks. The events will include making simple toys to take home.

A girl sits with her doll in this 1909 image. Photo is from the Shiloh Museum’s Bruce Vaughan Jr. Collection (S-79-4-45).