Scavenger Hunt (form below)
September 15-30 | Forms available at the Downtown Marion table in front of The Brickyard, 5-9pm. 9/15 or United Church Homes,170 E. Center St, 8am-4pm, weekdays beginning 9/16. Forms are online at downtownmarion.com. All forms with correct answers returned by 5pm Sept. 30 will be eligible for prizes:
1st prize: $200 gift card 2nd prize: $100 gift card 3rd prize: $50 gift card.
Marion Boards
Write your favorite Marion memory on the Marion Then Board, your favorite thing about Marion today on the
Now Board, and what you would like to see in Marion on the Future Board. Boards on display next to the Courthouse.
Bites of Marion
Bicentennial featured item at the following restaurants:
Marcela’s Baires | A Taste of Memphis BBQ | Topped Ice Cream & Eatery | Amato’s Woodfired Pizza
The Remnant Tea & Coffee | Marion Brewing Company | Shovel City Drinkery
Visit the downtown merchants! Many downtown merchants will be open. Stop in as many as possible!
September 15-18, 2022
BICENTENNIAL WEEKEND
Museum Tours
Harding Presidential Sites, 9a-5p Visit www.hardingpresidentialsites.org for tickets
The following will be open FREE to visitors on 9/17 only:
Stengel-True Museum, 1-4pm | Henry True Home, 10a-2p | Huber Museum, 1-4p | Heritage Hall, 1-4p | Explore-It-Torium, 10a-4p | Marion Union Station, 9:30a-5p
Marion County Courthouse, by appointment only, 740-382-4885 | Marion Mausoleum, 10a-3p (Rt95)
Bicentennial Commemorative Wooden Nickels available for purchase beginning 9/17 at Explore-It-Torium, Heritage Hall, Huber Museum and The Brickyard - 10:30am-2pm - Cost: $1.00
THURSDAY
4:30-5:30pm Marion Then & Now Presentation
by Randy Winland & Mike Perry
at The Brickyard on Main
5-9pm Scavenger Hunt begins
6pm Bicentennial Welcome Proclamation
by Mayor Schertzer
FRIDAY
6-8pm Horse drawn wagon rides
begin/end in Union Bank parking lot
SATURDAY
Museum Tours (locations & times below)
11am-Noon 2nd Saturday Walking Tour
leaves from The Brickyard
10am Power Walk for the Pa lace Theater
10am-3pm Visitors Bureau open
SUNDAY
Noon-4:00pm Entertainment in Founder’s Park
(Bring your own lawn chairs)
Yard games & food trucks
1-4pm Full Moon Duo performing
4pm Toast to Marion’s next 200 years!
2:30pm St Mary’s Hispanic Festival at St. Mary’s School Gym folk dances & traditional food
