Museum to host drive tour, ghosts Oct. 15

When the temperatures start to cool, it’s time for the annual Jack County Museum Driving Tour.

This year’s tour will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15 and will feature history of skirmishes, scouts, legends and a secret still.

Tickets are $10 per person for adults and $2 for children from 6 to 15 years old. Maps and CDs of the tour are available at the museum and a Jack County Historical Commission member will greet visitors at each site.

There are six main sites on the self-paced driving tour and many others to be viewed along the way.

The tour will include a discussion on James Dosher who was awarded the Medal of Honor. Other locations on the tour include the final resting place of Billy Kutch, a tour of a rock house rumored to have been the site of a still, a frontier fort and the birthplace of 4-H.

Also that day, the museum will host its Ghosts of Jack County dinner. The ghosts will start arriving at the Jack County Museum at 5 p.m. A dinner of Spooky Stew and cornbread along with scary desserts will be available. After the dinner, the ghosts will present tales of their past when they lived in Jack County.

For more information, call 940-567-5900 or 940-798-2535.