Evelyn Fullerton and family will present a musical program about her father, Earl \u201cChick\u201d Allen, a pioneer of Branson\u2019s entertainment and tourism industry, March 14 at the White River Valley Historical Society\u2019s quarterly meeting.<\/p>\n
The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Historical Society Museum, 297 Main Street, Forsyth.<\/p>\n
Chick Allen was an original member of the Baldknobbers Jamboree, one of the first public relations representatives for Silver Dollar City, and owner of his own attraction, the former Wash Gibbs Museum, on Hwy. 76 at the Taney-Stone County line. Allen played the jawbone of a mule among other instruments. He was also an expert on home remedies and lectured on Ozark medicinal roots and herbs at Washington University in St. Louis and William Jewel College near Kansas City.<\/p>\n
Evelyn Fullerton, Allen\u2019s eldest daughter, will lead a group of family members and guests in a musical tribute. Family members include granddaughters Judy Fullerton Rice and Jewelene Mabe, grandsons Jim Fullerton and Barry Mabe, and great grandson John Fullerton. Guest musicians are Jim Glaspy, Katey Glaspy and Louis Darby.
\nJig dancing is also part of the tribute.<\/p>\n
Additional information about the White River Valley Historical Society is available by contacting the Museum at 417-546-2210 or emailing to wrvhs@hotmail.com. The Museum\u2019s regular hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
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Evelyn Fullerton and family will present a musical program about her father, Earl \u201cChick\u201d Allen, a pioneer of Branson\u2019s entertainment and tourism industry, March 14 at the White River Valley Historical Society\u2019s quarterly meeting. The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Historical Society Museum, 297 Main Street, Forsyth. Chick Allen was an original […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}