{"id":29782,"date":"2017-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/gordon-center-hosts-museum-after-dark-spring-ball-april-1\/"},"modified":"2021-11-12T02:33:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T02:33:51","slug":"gordon-center-hosts-museum-after-dark-spring-ball-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/gordon-center-hosts-museum-after-dark-spring-ball-april-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Center hosts ‘Museum after Dark Spring Ball’ April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
<\/span>Tuesday, March 21, 2017<\/p>\n

<\/span>STEPHENVILLE, Texas—Dance the night away Saturday, April 1, as Tarleton State University’s W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas hosts its “Museum after Dark Spring Ball.”<\/p>\n

The free event—appropriate for all ages—begins at 7 p.m. with Tarleton’s jazz musicians performing music from the 1920s and ’30s and plenty to eat.<\/p>\n

Free transportation is available from the university’s Stephenville campus on a first-come, first-served basis for Tarleton students who reserve a seat by Friday, March 31. For reservations, call 254-968-1886.<\/p>\n

The W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, a Tarleton museum and research facility located in the historic ghost town of Thurber, is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays. The center is located at Exit 367 on Interstate 20 between Fort Worth and Abilene. For more information, visit www.tarleton.edu\/gordoncenter<\/a> or the museum’s Facebook page.<\/p>\n

Tarleton, a member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven educational experience marked by academic innovation and exemplary service, and dedicated to transforming students into tomorrow’s professional leaders. With campuses in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian and online, Tarleton engages with its communities to provide real-world learning experiences and to address societal needs while maintaining its core values of integrity, leadership, tradition, civility, excellence and service.<\/p>\n

#<\/p>\n

Contact:
Mary Adams, Museum Educator \/ Facilities Manager
254-968-1886
mkadams@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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