Oak View's educational programming offers opportunities for students to learn about important parts of North Carolina's diverse agricultural past. Our educators lead engaging and interactive virtual presentations, providing your students with a deeper understanding of the lives of 19th and 20th century farmers, free and enslaved, landowner and landless, who lived and worked at Oak View before and after the Civil War.
We are able to offer sessions for a minimum of 10 students. We recommend that you schedule 1 program per class. Please have each teacher schedule their own program for their class.
Program description:
In the Farm’s Kitchen (20-minute presentation, 10-15 minute Q&A)
Students will learn about daily work done in and around the farm's kitchen and learn about the concept of change over time through comparing kitchen chores from the past and the present. Through an engaging presentation in the 1825 plank kitchen, students will discover the story of Eliza Hutchings, an enslaved woman who worked on the plantation, and how she built a life after emancipation. By learning about changes over time in daily work done in and around the farm's kitchen, students will understand how Eliza created a home and cared for her family.
The program comes with a downloadable activity packet with post-program activity suggestions and additional informational videos and resources. *Activity packet is not needed to participate in the program
Questions? Contact
abigail.kellerman@wakegov.com