2025 Annual Membership Dinner & Election

The Spring 2025 Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner agenda will include:

• 6:00 p.m. A Meet and Greet Reception at the 1855 Harris-Kearney Historical House Museum (Time TBA)
• The Opening of our 2025 Featured Exhibit entitled, The Works of Arthur Kraft.
  • Remember Mr. Kraft? He lived in the Valentine area near Westport and was commissioned in the 60s to paint a 24- foot-wide mural of pioneer life. The mural remained on display above the teller section of the Westport Bank at 331 Westport Rd. until it was removed before the bank was razed for redevelopment in 2017. The Westport Historical Society, under the leadership of past president Alana Smith, rescued the mural from the bank before it was scheduled for demolition in 2017. No longer in storage, the mural will remain on indefinite display in our upper gallery until members of the organization find a suitable Read more about it here: https://arthurkraft.wordpress.com/tag/westport-bank/
• 6:45 p.m. Dinner with a guest speaker (TBA) about Arthur Kraft.
• 7:30 p.m. Election of Board of Directors 

2025 Dues must be current to attend and vote. To JOIN as a new member or RENEW you previous membership, please go to https://westporthistoricalkc.org/memberships/

NOTE: The full 2025 Calendar of Events will be posted prior to the date of the meeting.

PHOTO: 2024 June 19th Member Reception and Dinner, at the Reopening of the Harris-Kearney House Museum. This is a partial photo of the panoramic image taken at the event.