By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
The Pony Express Museum will celebrate 165 years of spreading the history of mail service to the West, by letting people in for free this coming weekend.
Executive Director Cindy Daffron says to celebrate the anniversary, the entire campus of the museum will open to everyone for free
“St. Joe is always telling me, you’re never open, I can’t ever go there, well I’m telling you right now I’ve got the money collected, it’s free days,” Daffron tells KFEQ News. “So the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th are all free days into all those facilities, so I’m really hoping people will take advantage of it, if not there’s people coming from South Carolina and all kinds of different places, so you need to come and check it out.”
Daffron says on April 4th there will be music in the board room, and you can also pay a visit to Dick and Mignon’s Soda Shop
“You can get a sarsaparilla, you can get a root beer but knock yourself out because I’ve got a mug and you can also get a root beer float,” Daffron explains. “So those things you pay for, and on the way out you need to get a chocolate bar.”
Daffron encourages everyone to come visit the museum April 3rd through the 6th for free
“You don’t need your wallet, if you want to give a donation that’s really fine, but you can come and enjoy our campus,” Daffron says. “Now it’s the only time that I know of that I’m going to have everything open, it takes a lot of volunteers folks to pull off all of this getting all of these buildings open, but it’s really our pleasure.”
There will also be several other events surrounding the anniversary weekend. The museum will be open from 9am to 5pm each day.
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