๐ First and Last of the Season!!
Friday:
๐ฃThe Hess Express is back!
๐Come ride the barrel train at Central Market!
๐ฐ4:30 โ dusk (weather permitting)
Saturday:
๐๐ฝโโ๏ธLast chance to check out our museum rooms at Franklin Center!
(Until September, that is!)
๐ซSaturday, May 18th
๐ฐ11 am – 3 pm
๐ชEnter door G
๐ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ผ๐๐ฒ!๐
Join us!!
๐Saturday, Dec 9 (10am – 4pm) & ๐Sunday, Dec 10 (Noon – 4pm)
โ๏ธGive a donation, enjoy a private visit with Santa
โ๏ธTake photos & video, weโll take a family picture for you
โ๏ธOur Holiday Bake Sale in our Depot, plus:
โ๏ธ Daisy Troop 15620, with stocking stuffer snacks
โ๏ธBrownie Troop 35647, with ornaments/decorative candle jars
โ๏ธCub Scout Pack 622 & Boy Scout Troop 623, with hot dogs, & hot chocolate, and holding a clothing drive for Sojourner Truth House in Gary!
Left: GHS Secretary, Karen Kulinski, talks to students about our Pullman Troop-sleeper railcar.
Right: Railroad history comes alive when a train passes by.
For the second year in a row, we hosted Griffith Public School students as part of our ElmerJ Program, wherein we work with schools as they teach town history, part of the 3rd grade Social Studies curriculum.
The program involves a presentation on Griffith History to the classes in their classroom, and a tour of the Historical Park. This year eight classes participated, with 161 students.
Students receive books on Griffith history written for young people, as well as primary source stories about early Griffith and other historical information.
We are grateful to members Nancy Stout, Karen Kulinski, Debby Hoot, John and Valerie Wotkun, Fran Evans, Marthann Gatlin, Claudia Powell, Victoria Fane, Toni Rickert, Belinda Stark.
Special thanks goes out to Officer Alex Ascolani, from the Canadian National Railroad Police, for providing Operation Lifesaver coloring books and coming out to the Park to talk to the children about train safety.
We are also grateful to the Griffith Park Department for bringing picnic tables up to our Park for us to use.
Our Historical Park has hosted Railroad Fairs, Santa Claus and even a Halloween event years ago. But next Sunday will be a first for us!
Boy Scout Troop 623, sponsored by the Griffith Isaac Walton League, will be camping overnight at our Park, September 16-17. They will set up camp late Saturday afternoon and sleep in the railcars.
On Sunday, they will take a tour of the Parkโs Depot, railcars and Tower. Both buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places and the Indiana Register of Historic Sites and Structures.
Stop by our Griffith Historical Park, 201 S. Broad St., on Sunday if youโd like to see Scouting in action and learn more about Boy Scout Troop 623, or Cub Scout Pack 622.
Griffith History Museums 