STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 History Happy Hour at the W.K. Gordon Museum and Research Center is scheduled for 6 p.m. Nov. 8, with the event featuring Island Getaway Rum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Produced in Dripping Springs and founded by Stephanie Martinez, Island Getaway Rum is one of the few dark rums produced in the United States and the only one produced in Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tickets are $25 and are available at https:\/\/tarletonstate.us\/historyhappyhour<\/a>. Advanced purchase is required. For assistance, email gordoncenter@tarleton.edu<\/a> or call 254-968-1886.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The W.K. Gordon Museum and Research Center is at 65258 Interstate 20, Exit 367, in Mingus and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays. The combined museum and special collections library is located at the site of the Thurber ghost town. To learn more about the museum, visit https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/gordoncenter\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 History Happy Hour at the W.K. Gordon Museum and Research Center is scheduled for 6 p.m. Nov. 8, with the event featuring Island Getaway Rum. Produced in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":52703,"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":422,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,424,425],"tags":[442,460],"class_list":["post-53945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morestories","category-arts-events","category-campus-community","tag-community-events","tag-w-k-gordon-center-for-industrial-history-of-texas"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"priddle","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/priddle-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2025\/02\/W.K.-GC-Background-300x200.png","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["_morestories<\/a>","Arts & Events<\/a>","Campus & Community<\/a>"],"unlinked":["_morestories<\/span>","Arts & Events<\/span>","Campus & Community<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Community Events<\/a>","W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Community Events<\/span>","W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 months ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 8, 2025","modified":"Updated on October 6, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 8, 2025 8:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 6, 2025 11:37 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53945","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53946,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53945\/revisions\/53946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}