FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n
Friday, December 13, 2019<\/p>\n
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Tarleton State University’s W.K. Gordon Center for the Industrial History of Texas, located in Thurber, is hosting its first-ever Cultural Christmas Open House from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20.<\/p>\n
The public is invited to toast the holiday season with the festive foods from the many cultures of historic Thurber. The free event features breakfast, lunch and dessert refreshments, including croissants, pizza and Christmas tamales.<\/p>\n
Follow the W.K. Gordon Center on Facebook at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wkgordoncenter<\/a> for activity hours and updates.<\/p>\n The W.K. Gordon Center is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays at exit 367 on Interstate 20 between Fort Worth and Abilene.<\/p>\n Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today’s scholars into tomorrow’s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n Contact: Phil Riddle Tarleton State University’s W.K. Gordon Center for the Industrial History of Texas, located in Thurber, is hosting its first-ever Cultural Christmas Open House from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-events"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/10\/Spring-Flowers-Admin-Gates_7545-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Arts & Events<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Arts & Events<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on December 13, 2019","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on December 13, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:45 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Tarleton State University entrance with flags and flowers.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54224,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26645\/revisions\/54224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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