A big dose of nostalgia, a live WWII radio play reading and cake. For members of the National Seckatary Hawkins Club and Behringer-Crawford Museum visitors, Saturday, June 13, will be a “fair and square” celebration of simpler times in the early 1900s.
For children growing up in the early 1900s, Seckatary Hawkins was the main character in a series of beloved books, newspaper serials and radio shows written by Covington author Robert F. Schulkers. His stories, which stressed such values as loyalty, honesty, friendship and patriotism, led to the birth of the Fair & Square Clubs of Seckatary Hawkins in 1923. Nearly a century later the clubs still endure. They will meet again at Behringer-Crawford Museum for talks, walks, a WWII radio play reading, story-sharing and reiteration of the club motto: “A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”
The radio play reading, which will be included with the BCM admission fee of $7 for adults and $4 for children 3-18, will take place in the museum’s Toyota Education Center at 2:30 p.m., followed by a public reception (and cake) as of the Biennial Seckatary Hawkins National Big Club Meeting, which will be held at the museum Saturday, June 13 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Membership in the Seckatary Hawkins Club is free. For those who wish to participate in the full meeting, a charge of $50 per person includes BCM admission, light breakfast, catered lunch and more. BCM members receive a $7 discount. To join, to register for the meeting or for more information, click here.
The museum is located at 1600 Montague Road-Devou Park in Covington. For more information about BCM, call (859) 491-4003, email info@bcmuseum.org or click here.
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