Dec. 1-31
Lights in Sequoyah Resort Park
Hulbert, Okla.
Phone: (918) 772-2108
E-mail: threeforks@intellex.com
Take a drive through the Sequoyah Resort Park and see this beautiful holiday lights display.
Dec. 1-20
The Christmas Train at Camp Dry Gulch
Adair, Okla.
Phone: (918) 234-8100
Web site: www.christmastrain.com
Step back into a simpler time as an old fashioned steam engine and horse drawn wagons whisk you into the 1880's town of Dry Gulch, USA. Visit Santa's Village and enjoy great food, gift shops, toy stores, and boutiques. Reservations required. Hours are from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
Dec. 4
Christmas Parade of Lights
Pryor, Okla.
Phone: (918) 825-0157
Web site: www.pryorchamber.com
This parade features 100-plus entries and more than 2,000 participants. Enjoy beautiful lighted floats, marching bands, antique cars, horses and Santa! Pre-parade entertainment begins at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Allred Theater, with the parade starting at 7 p.m.
Dec. 4
Christmas Parade in downtown Vinita
Phone: (918) 256-7133
This small-town parade is a winter favorite, and Santa will greet kids and parents at the Chamber of Commerce afterwards.
Dec. 5
Christmas Parade of Lights
Tahlequah, Okla.
Phone: (918) 456-3742
Web site: www.tahlequahchamber.com
Tahlequah's parade features elaborate floats with holiday lights, marching bands, elves, horses, antique cars, Santa Claus, and lots of surprises! Event begins at 6:30 p.m.
Dec. 5-7
Thompson House Victorian Christmas in Tahlequah, Okla.
300 S. College Ave.
Phone: (918) 456-3742
Web site: www.tourtahlequah.com
Victorian clothed characters host this event in the historic Thompson House, while you shop among the hand-crafted items for sale. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Dec. 5-7
A Christmas Carol at the Muskogee Little Theatre
Cincinnati & D Streets
Phone: (918) 683-5332
Come and enjoy the Charles Dickens’ tale of greedy Ebenezer Scrooge, three ghostly visits and his eventual reversal of fortune.
Dec. 6
Christmas Parade
Claremore, Okla.
Phone: (918) 341-2818
More than 200 parade entries travel through historic Claremore in clear view of the city’s twinkling light displays.
Dec. 6
Regional Christmas Parade
Bartlesville, Okla.
Phone: (918) 336-8708
Santa Claus and the gang will help celebrate “A Centennial Christmas” on the downtown streets.
Dec. 7
Bartlesville Choral Society at Bartlesville Community Center
300 S.E. Adams Blvd.
Phone: (918) 337-2787
Christmas carols, hymns, and other modern works with the Madison Middle School Choir.
Dec. 12
Christmas at the Coleman
Miami, Okla.
Phone: (918) 540-2425
The Tulsa Praise Orchestra plays your favorite holiday tunes big-b and style.
Dec. 13
Christmas Spectacular at Bartlesville Community Center
300 S.E. Adams Blvd.
Phone: (918) 337-2787
This high-energy local music and dance production celebrates the Christmas holiday in style.
Dec. 14
Murrell Home Christmas Open House in Park Hill, Okla.
19479 E. Murrell Home Road
Phone: (918) 456-2751
Web site: www.okhistory.org
House is decorated for a mid-Victorian period Christmas with costumed re-enactors and a visit with “Father Christmas.” Hours are from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Dec. 15
Christmas Bucks Giveaway in downtown Vinita
Phone: (918) 256-7133
Prize drawing will award Vinita townspeople who have shopped in their local area merchant shops.
Until Dec. 30
Fantasy Land of Lights in Johnstone Park
Bartlesville, Okla.
Phone: (918) 327-1795
Drive through Christmas light show at Johnstone Park. Enjoy the music, animated displays and thousands of lights decorating the park. Donations accepted at the Gingerbread House with hours from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. nightly.
Dec. 31
Olive Drop New Year’s Eve Party at Price Tower Arts Center
Bartlesville, Okla.
Phone: (918) 336-4949
An oversized olive will be dropped into an oversized martini glass to help ring in 2009.
Until Jan. 1
Garden of Lights Festival at Honor Heights Park
Muskogee, Okla.
Phone: (918) 684-6302
Experience animated displays and over a million lights while driving through the park. Weekday hours from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and weekends from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Year Round
Will Rogers Memorial Museum
Claremore, Okla.
Phone: (918) 341-0719
The museum honors the Cherokee cowboy, movie start, writer and humorist every day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with nine galleries, three theaters and a special children’s museum. Admission by voluntary contributions
Fourth Thursday of each month
American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma – Eastern Chapter monthly luncheon at Bacone College
Muskogee, Okla.
Phone: (918) 230-3759
The lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. at Benjamin Wacoche Hall. Please RSVP one week ahead of time.
First Tuesday of each month
Cherokee Basket Weavers Association at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Tahlequah, Okla.
Phone: (918) 456-7787
Monthly meetings are at 6 p.m. the first Tuesday, but if it is a holiday it’s on the second Tuesday. Everyone is welcomed to come and visit or join the CBWA.