Those interested in learning more about Dexter area history can attend an event online at the end of this month.

Bricker Price Block based in Earlham will be hosting a live, virtual tour of the Dexter Museum with local historian Rod Stanley at 10 a.m. July 31st on their Facebook page. Stanley will be taking Alyssa Johnson from Bricker Price Block through the museum, and answering questions that the public can submit through Facebook. Stanley shares some of the local history the museum contains, “We have the Dexfield Amusement Park exhibit, and we have the Truman, when Harry Truman came to Dexter in 1948, and a number of other stuff. We have a nice exhibit about the Wilson brothers, the three of them who were from Dexter and Dallas County and three of them lost their lives during World War II. There’s just a lot of neat stuff in the museum that we have that we haven’t been able to show this year.”

Stanley says he frequently receives calls from visitors wanting to see pictures and artifacts from when Bonnie and Clyde were in the Dexter area. However, since the Museum Board is not comfortable reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanley looks forward to giving newcomers the chance to take a peek online.