News and Events from the Greater Garden City Area
The Finney County Historical Museum in Garden City has announced its full series of Brown Bag Lunch and Evening at the Museum lectures for the spring season of 2020. Brown Bag Lunch programs take place at noon the second Wednesday of January, February, March, April and May. Evenings at the […]
The Finney County Historical Society’s Brown Bag Lunch and Evening at the Museum series of free lectures in Garden City will resume Jan. 8 with one program on health and another shortly afterward about art history. The series includes Brown Bag sessions at noon on the second Wednesday of […]
The Finney County Historical Society has published the 2020 Historic Finney County Calendar, featuring stylized and traditional pictures from the community’s past. Copies of the wall calendar are in sale in the Finney County Museum Gift Shop at $15 each, plus tax. The gift shop is open concurrently with exhibits, […]
People across Southwest Kansas are invited to celebrate Christmas at the Finney County Historical Museum, where the annual holiday open house has been scheduled from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 14. The come and go gathering will offer seasonal snacks, live music and the museum’s Christmas […]
The Finney County Historical Museum, 403 S. Fourth St., Garden City, has extended its exhibit hours for the summer season effective May 28 through mid-August. Hours to see museum exhibits are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, as well as 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is free. […]
Humanities Kansas and the Finney County Historical Society are jointly sponsoring a workshop to help people write their family stories of immigration to Kansas. The session from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 21 in the Finney County Historical Museum’s meeting room is part of a statewide project entitled […]
Courtesy of the Finney County Historical Society Finney County’s history of successfully welcoming immigrants into the local population will be shared in a new documentary, “Strangers in Town,” which is debuting statewide at 6 p.m. Oct. 10 in the auditorium at Garden City High School. The 33-minute production is the […]
By SCOTT AUST, FCEDC Director of Communications On a day that marked the 90th anniversary of the Fleagle gang’s notorious 1928 Colorado bank robbery, the Finney County Historical Museum unveiled Wednesday a piece of Fleagle-related history that will go on display at the museum. The Fleagle Gang were infamous Finney […]
The public is welcome to join members and guests in attending the 2018 annual Finney County Historical Society banquet set for 7 p.m. April 21 at the Church of the Nazarene fellowship hall, 2720 N. Campus Drive. Two families with deep roots in the community will be recognized with the […]
By the Finney County Historical Society Registration is under way for the Sixth Annual Southwest Kansas Antiques Appraisal Fair, which is set for 9 a.m. March 10 at the Finney County 4-H Building in Garden City. The all-day show should appeal to people who enjoy “Pawn Stars,” “American Pickers” or […]
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