NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County Museum is going to try a big-ticket fundraiser event for the first time next month.
"It's a murder mystery and dinner event," said Reno County Historical Society Board President Josie Thompson. "We have, the theme is bootleggers, bandits and booze. So, come in all your 1920s attire and have a lot of fun. Tammy's Catering is doing the dinner. It's $75 a ticket or you can buy our tabletops. There's eight to a table for $550, but all the proceeds will go to the Reno County Museum to help support our Vietnam exhibit that is scheduled to open in the spring."
They are still looking for items for that exhibit, as well.
"We are still looking for lots of donations and either a loan or complete donation of any Vietnam items, whether it's uniforms, draft cards," Thompson said. "We'll take weaponry, but it has to be decommissioned."
It's important to note that the Reno County Museum collects artifacts from all over the county, not just from Hutchinson.
"We try to showcase as many of those communities as we can," Thompson said. "We take donations from all of those communities to help preserve their history as well as ours."
To find out more about the fundraiser, go to renocomuseum.org.