For Immediate Release

Friday, December 3, 2021

STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Tarleton State University’s W.K. Gordon Museum and Research Center will host Cookies with Santa from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 12.

Good little boys and girls are invited for holiday cookies and to have their pictures made with Santa. Admission is free.

The W.K. Gordon Museum and Research Center, a facility of Tarleton State University, is at 65258 Interstate 20, Exit 367, Mingus, Texas, and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays. It is a combined museum and special collections library located at the site of the Thurber ghost town. Visitors enjoy interactive exhibits that explore the birth, operations and death of a town owned by the Texas and Pacific Coal Co.

For more information on the W. K. Gordon Museum, call 254-968-1886, email [email protected] or visit https://www.tarleton.edu/gordoncenter/#upcomingevents.

A founding member of The Texas A&M System, Tarleton State is breaking records — in enrollment, research, scholarship, athletics, philanthropy and engagement — while transforming the lives of nearly 17,000 students in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Bryan and online. True to Tarleton’s values of excellence, integrity and respect, academic programs emphasize real world learning and address regional, state and national needs.