Sheridan Museum ready for Halloween festivities

By STEVE MARTIN
For The Reporter

If you are visiting uptown Sheridan on Halloween night, you are welcome to visit the Museum, see our displays, warm up and/or dry off if the weather is not great. Kids in costume will get a bag of treats while the supply lasts. We at the museum love to see all the young children in their costumes while older children and their parents get to see our displays and ask questions about our community history.

Sheridan traditionally has a short parade down Main Street starting about a half hour before the traditional Trick or Treat neighborhood hours of 6 to 8 p.m. Parade participants assemble at Veterans Park for the 5:30 p.m. parade and walk down Main Street to 6th Street where the parade terminates. Participants then reverse course and head back along the parade route and begin the hunt for sweets and treats from Main Street merchants, trunk or treat folks, and other organizations like the Sheridan Historical Society.

Weather depending, it is not unusual for the town to see 400 to 500 people visiting the uptown business district for this event. It is quite a lively evening for a couple of hours along Sheridan’s main drag if you have never participated before.

We hope you will make plans to join us this Thursday evening, Oct. 31. We love seeing your children all dressed up in their favorite costume, we enjoy talking with accompanying adults, and we like telling everyone about the history of Sheridan and answering questions about our community.

The Museum is located at 315 S. Main St., right in the heart of the business district. We are normally open on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m., but we open for dedicated events like Halloween, Independence Day festivities, Christmas celebrations, and other various holiday programs. Sometimes we need to close for sad events or dangerous weather.

If you are new to the area, please know that Sheridan is located just on the country side of Hamilton County, and functions as the northwest gateway to greater Hamilton County, Indiana. We invite you to drop in and see what we are all about.

Steve Martin serves as the First Vice President of the Sheridan Historical Society.