Finney County Historical Society

FUTURE, PRESENT and PAST: Opportunities coming up to participate, celebrate and support historical society

If you’ve attended events, viewed exhibits or sought help at the Finney County Historical Museum over the past year, you’ve probably encountered some images and information from earlier times, and even a character or two from the 20th or 19th Century.If you haven’t, there are still a few opportunities ahead before Auld Lang Syne.We were, for instance, able to bring author Mark Twain “back to life” for an evening in the past, portrayed by veteran reenactor Ken Church; attract nearly 3,200 visitors at the 15th annual Flea Market Festival, with people arriving from 40 towns for art, crafts, food, collectibles, antiques and other items; and provide classroom visits, tours, presentations and museum experiences to over 5,000 children in the Finney County Historical Society’s year-round education program.We were also able to host Doug Adams of New Providence, Penn.

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FUTURE, PRESENT and PAST: What’s coming up through the historical society?

If you follow the Finney County Historical Society throughout the year, you’ve probably noticed that there’s a lot going on, and that local history is anything but dry, dull and inactive.So far in 2024 we’ve hosted the Forgotten Times Prize Raffle; the Finney County Pioneer Awards Program, now incorporating the Horizon Award; the 15th annual Flea Market Festival of Antiques, Collectibles, Art and Crafts, featuring craft, art, food, beverage and antique entrepreneurs from across Kansas; our Pre-Labor Day Rib Sale, offering historically delicious dining opportunities; the annual FCHS picnic, which took place this month with the great-great grandson of Garden City co-founder Buffalo Jones sharing his journey of discovery; and now the 2024 Historic Walking Tours of Valley View Cemetery.We also hosted over 1,500 visitors during summer weekend tours of the 1884 William and Lettie Fulton House; and we’re still in the midst of 14 free noon and evening history presentations for the community.

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