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8th Annual Gone To Texas Gala
“The Big Deal” Casino Night
Benefiting Dallas Heritage Village Education
Programs
Help Keep Dallas and North Texas History
Alive for Metroplex School Children
Dallas, TX
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Dallas Heritage Village will host its 8th Annual
Gone To Texas Gala “The Big Deal” Casino Night, presented by
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP,
Saturday, March 24, 6:30 p.m., at Eddie Deen’s Ranch,
944 South Lamar Street, Dallas, Texas, 75207. The annual
event is the largest fundraiser for Dallas Heritage Village,
providing funds for engaging, hands-on history programs for
area school children and tourists that visit this unique
living museum. More than 25,000 school children participate
in education programs at Dallas Heritage Village each year.
The evening will feature blackjack, craps, roulette, and
poker, a lavish buffet, premium open bar, and live and
silent auctions with trips, jewelry and more; and plenty of
fun and dancing to hits from every decade with music by
Jon Christopher Davis & Lone Star Attitude®.
“We are excited about the
new look and feel of this year’s party with the casino theme
and a high-energy band,” said Kelly Dybala, event chair.
“Not only will this new format provide a lot of fun things
for guests to do, it will help raise important dollars for
education programs at Dallas Heritage Village.”
Auction items include: featuring a set of four tickets to
game three of the World Series plus trips to Sun Valley, New
Orleans, Santa Fe and the Texas Hill Country.
“Gone To Texas” is named in honor of the 19th century
Southerners who decided to pick up and move to a land of
better opportunity. Upon departure, they marked their front
doors with "GTT" to announce they had gone to Texas.
Major donors include:
Presenting Sponsor $15,000 – Weil, Gotshal & Manges
LLP; $5,000 – Sally and Forrest Hoglund/Gail and Bill
Plummer; Lockton Dunning Benefits; Jolene and Mark Masur;
Ann and Paul Phy; Bruce and Sarah Sammis. Auction donors
include Comerica, La Fonda on the Plaza, Orient Express
Hotels and Southwest Airlines.
Tickets start at $175 and are available for purchase online
at
www.dallasheritagevillage.org. Contact Nancy Farina (nfarina@dallasheritagevillage.org
or 214-421-8468). Underwriting opportunities are available
from $3,500 to $15,000. Tickets should be purchased by
March 16. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Valet
parking is complimentary.
Dallas Heritage Village depicts life in Dallas from 1840 to
1910. It has 38 historic structures, including a log cabin,
a Victorian Main Street and an 1861 farmstead. Hours of
operation are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. For more information
about the museum, go to
www.dallasheritagevillage.org
or
call 214-421-5141.
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Dallas
Heritage Village,
located at Old City Park, is a nationally accredited history
museum, depicting life in Dallas from 1840-1910. It is one
of only five museums in the Dallas area to have this
distinction. The grounds showcase 38 historic structures,
including log cabins, the pre-Civil War Millermore home, a
Victorian Main Street, a railroad complex, an 1860s
farmstead with livestock, a 19th century church,
school and more. Visitors discover how crops were grown,
animals cared for and how family living progressed from log
cabins to grand manors and Victorian homes. Dallas Heritage
Village is supported, in part, by the City of Dallas Office
of Cultural Affairs and the Texas Commission on the Arts as
well as individual and group donations. Dallas Heritage
Village was nominated in 2011 by D Magazine as one of
the top Dallas-area family attractions. It is located at
1515 South Harwood, one block south of Farmers Market in
Downtown Dallas. Hours of operation are Tuesday – Saturday,
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sunday, noon – 4 p.m. The Village is
closed the months of January and August. Regular admission
is $9 for adults, $7 for seniors 65+ and $5 for children
ages 4-12. Children under 4 and members of Dallas Heritage
Village are admitted free of charge. For more information
call 214-421-5141 or visit
www.DallasHeritageVillage.org.
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