September Specials!

NEWS RELEASE

Santa Fe Trail Center
1349 K-156 Hwy
Larned, KS 67550
620-285-2054

Release Date: Immediate
Date: August 25, 2011

September Specials

     To celebrate Labor Day the Santa Fe Trail Center, Larned, is offering free admission to WWII veterans for the holiday weekend. The temporary exhibit “The Spirit of ’45” will continue to be on display. This exhibit commemorates the generation who fought in WWII and features artifacts and photographs donated by local servicemen and women.  The Trail Center will be open from 9a.m. to 5p.m. all weekend including Monday, September 5, 2011.

     Also in September, the Trail Center will be honoring the ten year anniversary of 9/11. On September 11, 2011 the museum will be showing a 1 hour HBO presentation: In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01. Show times are 1pm and 3pm and admission to the show is free. A free will donation will be collected to give to local veterans groups in honor of the men and women who went to war as a result of the 9/11 attack.

     The Santa Fe Trail Center is located 2 miles west of Larned on Hwy K-156.  After Labor Day the museum will return to our winter hours Tuesday-Sunday 9a.m. to 5p.m and closed on Mondays. For more information regarding these programs, the museum, or how to become a Fort Larned Historical Society member call 620-285-2054 or visit the website at www.santafetrailcenter.org.