The Souris Valley Museum staff and board members will be taking Estevan back to the Roaring 1920s on May 30.
The museum team will be hosting a Roaring 20s theme night featuring a live jazz band, the Regina Riot, who will be offering up hit tunes from that decade in the large Estevan Legion Hall which will become a dance hall for the night while the small Legion Hall will serve as a prohibition-styled gambling den, where gamblers will be using play money but still competing for the best card hands or dice rolls in the bootlegging games.
Katrina Howick, museum director, said there will also be a Roaring 20s costume contest, a jail and bail where jailed convicts get to bribe their way out of the big house. There will be an auction to attract some additional activity as well as desserts available for all comers.
The speakeasy evening promises to be filled with action and adventure from 90 decades ago.
Howick will be assisted by collections manager Sarah Durham as well as this summer's museum assistant Alaina Pecson, summer curatorial assistant Kyle Brokenshire along with board members and volunteers, in setting up the Legion to depict the 1920's styles.
"We'll be doing a lot of quick decorating in the Legion to create a new atmosphere," she said, noting the two summer student interns will be a big help in organizing and getting the ambience established for the evening.
Table tickets and individual tickets are available at the museum on Highway 39 west on the city outskirts or at Henders Drugs on Fourth Street.
The museum is now open and available for spring and summer tours and, weather permitting, will be open until the end of September.
Plans are also moving forward for a big Heritage Day celebration on June 12 featuring a number of school tours and additional activities, and that will be followed by a summer Pioneer Fun Day and Seniors Days at the museum. The museum will also be participating in this year's Beach Bash at Boundary Dam.
"Day camps are filling in quickly," said Howick. The first Pioneer Day camp for kids is already filled with the maximum of 13 youngsters, and there will be two other Pioneer Day camps slated throughout the summer along with two Discovery Day Camps that will be restricted to just nine participants each.
"They are very popular camps, a fee of $50 covers everything, and we've kept the fee as low as we can because we want to make the experience affordable and accessible because the key is to get people involved, including the young people," Howick said.
