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Special General Membership Meeting

Please join us for a Special General Membership Meeting.
Wednesday, January 8th at 5:30 pm
โ€ขFranklin Center – Community Room
โ€ขEnter Door A

As we plan for and move strategically into 2025, the Board of Directors is recommending changes in how we operate and represent the Griffith Historical Society Museums, not only in Griffith, but across the nation within a fraternity of hundreds of other Historical Museums.

To do this, we are proposing changes in our Bylaws regarding membership.

Please join us at this Special Membership Meeting to hear about the changes and vote on them, to secure the future of the Griffith Historical Society.

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Santa in the Caboose THANK YOU!

โœจTHANK YOU THANK YOU!
๐ŸŽ…This year’s Santa in the Caboose was a huge success thanks to every visitor and so many volunteers!
๐Ÿš‚This event is fun for everyone and has a huge impact in funding the upkeep of the Depot and Train Park!

๐ŸŽ„Thanks to our old friends who come every year, and to the new friends who found us this year.
๐ŸชThanks to the Scouts and Leaders of Griffith Girl Scout Troop 15620 for baking cookies for us to sell at our bake sale and for being part of the fun with their holiday hair club and headbands.
๐ŸŒญThanks to Griffith Cub Scout Pack 622 for again selling hot dogs and hot chocolate up at the Park during the event.
๐ŸฅงThank you TriKappa for donating baked goods!
๐ŸซThanks to the Griffith Public Schools for helping get the word out about Santa in the Caboose.
๐ŸŒณThanks to the Park Department for sharing the info at Central Park.
๐ŸขThanks to all the businesses that let us put flyers in their windows.
๐Ÿ‘‹Hopefully we didn’t forget anyone!!
๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธAnd a huge thanks all the Griffith Historical Society members who decorated the Depot and railcars, worked to promote the event, made goodies to sell, and made the event run smoothly!!
โœจA special shoutout to volunteers/members Karen, Nancy, Martha Belinda, John, Laura, Valerie, Debbie, Jim and Beth for making this weekend a success!

๐ŸŽ…๐ŸคถAnd, of course, a big thanks to Santa and Mrs. Claus!

We had a wonderful time and we’ll see you next year!!

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Wadsworth Information Community Callout

๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜!
We are looking for YOUR help!!

Mrs. Sue Guy and the Griffith Historical Society are embarking upon a fun project about the history of Wadsworth Elementary School and Mrs. Elsie Wadsworth herself, but we need information from YOU!

If you have photos, memorabilia, stories, information about the school or the teacher, we are asking you to share with us!

You can comment right here on this post, email us at [email protected], or organize a time to meet with us. If you have digital copies of photos, you can email them or share them here. If you have physical items you would like to share, we can copy anything into our computer and return the original to the owner.

Thank you in advance for your help and support, Griffith!!

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Santa in the Caboose!

Reminder, mark your calendars for this year’s

๐ŸŽ… ๐’๐€๐๐“๐€ ๐ˆ๐ ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐‚๐€๐๐Ž๐Ž๐’๐„! ๐Ÿšƒ

โžœ ๐‘บ๐’‚๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’…๐’‚๐’š, ๐‘ซ๐’†๐’„๐’†๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’†๐’“ 14: 10 ๐’‚.๐’Ž. ๐’•๐’ 3 ๐’‘.๐’Ž.
โžœ ๐‘บ๐’–๐’๐’…๐’‚๐’š, ๐‘ซ๐’†๐’„๐’†๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’†๐’“ 15: ๐’๐’๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’ 3 ๐’‘.๐’Ž..

๐Ÿ’ธ Give a donation to see Santa (our 27th annual!) and support the upkeep (and heating!) of the Historical Park!
๐Ÿ“ธ Take as many personal photos as youโ€™d like โ€“ you can even record the visit on your phone!
๐Ÿช Be sure to shop our Holiday Bake Sale and the holiday stocking stuffers that Girl Scout Troop 15620 will be offering.

๐ŸŒญโ˜•๏ธ Hot dogs and hot chocolate will be sold by Griffith Cub Scout Pack 622 and Griffith Boy Scout Pack 623.๐Ÿš‚๐Ÿงฒ Griffith train magnets will be available for sale.

*๐˜ž๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ. ๐˜ž๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ด, ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด!

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Griffith Magnets make great Stocking Stuffers!

๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—˜๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜€ ๐Ÿš‚๐Ÿงฒ
make GREAT stocking stuffers!! ๐Ÿงฆ๐ŸŽ„
$5 each – local pickup
(We’ll also have them for sale at Santa in the Caboose!)
We can ship multiple magnets for a flat $4 fee!

Your purchases and donations go directly to helping maintain our Depot & Train Park and the Franklin Museum! We are all volunteers and we appreciate your support!

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Early Boys Basketball Team

๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ’› ๐—š๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—™๐—™๐—œ๐—ง๐—› ๐—›๐—œ๐—š๐—› ๐—ง๐—จ๐—ฅ๐—ก๐—ฆ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ! ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ–ค
๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜Ž๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜บ!

๐Ÿ€ How much has basketball changed since this photo was taken?!
๐Ÿ€ Is there anyone here you recognize?

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๐—”๐—ป๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—Ÿ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ป

๐—”๐—ป๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—Ÿ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ป
๐—ข๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—”๐—น๐—น ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€!
๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜†, ๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฒ, ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ป
** Updated location: Corner Cafe at Broad and Main
$๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป

Thereโ€™s been a change in our Annual Dinner Meeting. Itโ€™s become a luncheon meeting! And itโ€™s on a Saturday, not a Wednesday.

The change was made in hopes of getting more people to come out, especially our older members who no longer like driving at night.

This yearโ€™s meeting will be held at noon, on November 16th at Corner Cafe restaurant.

Attendees will have five different meal choices, some from the senior menu. The price will be $15 Text Nancy Stout if you plan on attending.

The winning ticket in our 50-50 Super 7 Raffle will be drawn at this meeting.
Want more tickets? Contact Debby Hoot.

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Griffith High Wrestling in 1964

๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ’› ๐—š๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—™๐—™๐—œ๐—ง๐—› ๐—›๐—œ๐—š๐—› ๐—ง๐—จ๐—ฅ๐—ก๐—ฆ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ! ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ–ค
๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜Ž๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜บ!

Griffith Varsity Wrestling – 60 years ago!
Do you recognize anyone in this picture?