Events
Go West! Field Day is a unique field trip experience that incorporates skilled reenactors, historic experts and carefully crafted hands-on activities to immerse students in the historic frontier while at the home of the famed frontier freighter Alexander Majors.Students at Go West! Field Day will have both hands-on and listening experiences. Classrooms will rotate through several different stations – each with a unique story to tell about the American frontier. Students will hear from a wagon master that lived at the Majors House, meet teamsters, tour the Majors House, decide how to load their wagon, and pan for gold.
More information: http://www.wornallmajors.org/gowest/
John Wornall’s wife Eliza saw the construction of the Wornall House, witnessed its use as a field hospital during the Battle of Westport, suffered the deaths of her father and five of her children, and watched her city, country and home be torn apart during the Civil War. Dying shortly after the war, her spirit lives on in the Wornall House as one of the most commonly seen unearthly residents of the museum.
Our one-hour Ghost Tours take you into the life (and death) of Eliza Wornall, touching on stories of ghostly sightings as well as historical Victorian beliefs when it came to death and spirituality. You’ll quickly understand why the Wornall House rightfully holds the reputation of being one of the most haunted locations in Kansas City.
Tickets on sale August 1 for Museum members, September 1 for the general public.
Information: http://www.wornallmajors.org/ghosttours/
John Wornall’s wife Eliza saw the construction of the Wornall House, witnessed its use as a field hospital during the Battle of Westport, suffered the deaths of her father and five of her children, and watched her city, country and home be torn apart during the Civil War. Dying shortly after the war, her spirit lives on in the Wornall House as one of the most commonly seen unearthly residents of the museum.
Our one-hour Ghost Tours take you into the life (and death) of Eliza Wornall, touching on stories of ghostly sightings as well as historical Victorian beliefs when it came to death and spirituality. You’ll quickly understand why the Wornall House rightfully holds the reputation of being one of the most haunted locations in Kansas City.
Tickets on sale August 1 for Museum members, September 1 for the general public.
Information: http://www.wornallmajors.org/ghosttours/
John Wornall’s wife Eliza saw the construction of the Wornall House, witnessed its use as a field hospital during the Battle of Westport, suffered the deaths of her father and five of her children, and watched her city, country and home be torn apart during the Civil War. Dying shortly after the war, her spirit lives on in the Wornall House as one of the most commonly seen unearthly residents of the museum.
Our one-hour Ghost Tours take you into the life (and death) of Eliza Wornall, touching on stories of ghostly sightings as well as historical Victorian beliefs when it came to death and spirituality. You’ll quickly understand why the Wornall House rightfully holds the reputation of being one of the most haunted locations in Kansas City.
Tickets on sale August 1 for Museum members, September 1 for the general public.
Information: http://www.wornallmajors.org/ghosttours/
John Wornall’s wife Eliza saw the construction of the Wornall House, witnessed its use as a field hospital during the Battle of Westport, suffered the deaths of her father and five of her children, and watched her city, country and home be torn apart during the Civil War. Dying shortly after the war, her spirit lives on in the Wornall House as one of the most commonly seen unearthly residents of the museum.
Our one-hour Ghost Tours take you into the life (and death) of Eliza Wornall, touching on stories of ghostly sightings as well as historical Victorian beliefs when it came to death and spirituality. You’ll quickly understand why the Wornall House rightfully holds the reputation of being one of the most haunted locations in Kansas City.
Tickets on sale August 1 for Museum members, September 1 for the general public.
Information: http://www.wornallmajors.org/ghosttours/
