You're invited to Atchison County Historical Society Annual Meeting -Monday, Oct. 21st - Social Hour beginning at 6 p.m.
& meeting/program beginning at 7 p.m.
& meeting/program beginning at 7 p.m.
Program by local author Robert D. Caplinger to feature 1922 story of Maurice P. O’Keefe – attorney who cleaned up Atchison County government as featured in Caplinger's book "A Wild Irish Rose"
The story of the young idealistic attorney who cleaned up the most corrupt county in Kansas (Atchison County in 1922) will be the focus of the annual meeting of the Atchison County Historical Society. Local author Robert D. Caplinger will share the story he found and pieced together about this dark chapter in Atchison County history.
The Atchison County Historical Society Annual Meeting evening on Monday, Oct. 21st will begin at 6 p.m. with a Social Hour in the Museum to include entertainment & heavy refreshments and beverages. Musical entertainment will be provided by Jim & Lynn Dixon and Lois Reid playing a variety of folk and popular music from the 1920s -1930s era to set the mood for the evening program. At 7 p.m. the Historical Society Annual Meeting will begin – including election of board and officers followed immediately by the Robert Caplinger’s “A Wild Irish Rose” program.
The full evening of events is free and open to the public.
The full evening of events is free and open to the public.
For additional information email Chris W. Taylor at the Atchison County Historical Society Museum:<GoWest@atchisonhistory.org>
No comments:
Post a Comment