Deadline extended for History Makers Gala tickets

Posted on June 15, 2015

By Eric Stock

BLOOMINGTON – Organizers of the fourth annual McLean County History Makers Gala have extended the deadline for tickets.

The June 25 dinner in the Brown Ballroom at Illinois State’s Bone Student Center will honor Merlin Kennedy, John and Margaret “Peg” Kirk and Sonja Reece.

PODCAST: Listen to Scott and Colleen’s interview with Beth Whisman and Sonja Reece.

McLean County Museum of History development director Beth Whisman told WJBC’s Scott Laughlin the gala will include a new wrinkle – a theatrical interpretation of each of the history-makers.

“It’s not a direct representation of each individual life that we do, it’s more of an interpretation,” Whisman said, adding the stage play and the musical that will be part of the presentation was written by the John and Peg’s daughter Kathleen Kirk.

Tickets are on sale through Tuesday at the McLean County Museum of History and at www.mchistory.org.

Eric Stock can be reached at [email protected].

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