The Park County Historical Society is hosting a $5.00 Easter style dinner and history presentation on Sunday, April 15th at the Platte Canyon Community Center in Shawnee. Dinner is from 5:00 p.m - 5:45 p.m. The presentation will start at 5:45 p.m and end at 7:00 p.m.
Don Brehm, a Certified Interpreter Guide for the National Association of Interpreters based at Colorado State University, will be talking about the French influence in the Fur Trade, people and places in early Park County (Bayou Salado) and Colorado. He will have Fur Trade Items on display.
Call (303) 838-6025 or (303) 838-8241 for more information.
This is the last reminder of the $5.00 dinner and history presentation this coming Sunday, April 15, at the Platte Canyon Comm Center in Shawnee. (aka the"VFW") If the weather permits we may have another full house. Again, dinner starts at 5:00. The presentation starts at roughly 5:45.
The next fundraiser is May 6th...same place, same time. Speakers will be Jane Gilsinger and Christie Wright. Then mark your calendars for Saturday, September 15th. Dave Tomkins, owner of the Como Depot, will be our speaker. He will do a history presentation on the Como Depot and engine #9. There will be another presentation on the Roberts tunnel in the near future. The speaker will be Arthur Hall. He spent 4 years working on the tunnel. Rex Rideout will again be on our calendar and we plan to have a presentation on South Park City.
