Funk Heritage Center

10/21/2026

Come see our in action this Friday, Oct. 23 at our free "Unsettled Liberty" event! Sponsored by

10/21/2026

The Possums will be providing some mountain music entertainment for visitors this Friday at the Funk Heritage Center and Bennett History Museum for our "Unsettled Liberty" event! See them FREE at 10:15 out back in the Appalachian Settlement, or see them from 1 to 3 at the museum courtyard. Come join us!

10/21/2026

Discovered in an Indigenous grave in Georgia nearly 150 years ago, the "Birdman" copper plate may actually depict a woman ceremonially dressed as a warrior.
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10/21/2026

Meet this fine gentleman this Friday at our "Unsettled Liberty" event at the Funk Heritage Center and Bennett History Museum! Gregory Ames will bring his red tail hawk "Number Thirty" at 1 pm. Thank you to Georgia Humanities for sponsorship of this FREE event!

10/21/2026

10/21/2026

Ever wondered what local links there might be to the American Revolution? Many people think of the Revolution as happening in far-off places like Yorktown and King's Mountain. What about right here in Cherokee County, and other places along what was then the frontier, and the Cherokee Nation? Find out at our "Unsettled Liberty" event, sponsored by the Georgia Humanities, this Friday, Oct. 23 at the Funk Heritage Center and Bennett History Museum. Come join us at this FREE event, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lecturers include Kevin Kokomoor, Jeff Bishop, Alice Taylor-Colbert, Andrew Jones, and Jeremy Redmon. Cherokee Nation elder Tony Harris will also be here to discuss traditional culture, plants and medicines; there will also be live music from The Possums, and much more!

10/20/2026

Congratulations, HistoryCherokee!

Holly Jansen Fulkerson is History Cherokee's new executive director, the organization announced.

10/19/2026

Join us this Friday for an all-day FREE event as we explore life on the Southern frontier during the American Revolution. Reinhardt University's own Dr. Andrew Jones begins the day discussing the Scottish connections to the frontier at 9 a.m.; Funk Heritage Center Director Jeff Bishop will then, at 10 a.m., discuss some unexpected Revolutionary (and family) connections to Cherokee County and even the land that now encompasses the Reinhardt University campus; at 11 a.m., Alice Taylor-Colbert will relate a Cherokee story dealing with the American Revolution; and then, at noon, author Kevin Kokomoor will offer insights from his book, "The Cherokee War of 1776." In the afternoon, at 2 p.m., author Jeremy Redmon will discuss the healing power of Lacrosse and its ancestor, the Stickball game. The day's events are sponsored by the Georgia Humanities. Come join us!