The Wabash County Museum has been celebrating a national event called Civic Season since Thursday, June 19. Photos provided by The Wabash County Museum.

News Release

WABASH — The Wabash County Museum has been celebrating a national event called Civic Season since Thursday, June 19.

Civic Season is the flagship program from Made By Us, a network of hundreds of museums, historic sites, libraries and archives with the goal of building a movement that shapes the ways in which we share and understand our nation’s history. Wabash County Museum has been involved since 2021 when the first Civic Season was kicked off. It runs from Juneteenth, our nation’s newest federal holiday, through the Fourth of July, America’s oldest federal holiday.

For the 2025 Civic Season, the museum teamed up with the Wabash County Diversity Coalition to host a Juneteenth Dinner and Community Conversation that drew about 25 guests from across the county who spent the evening learning about the history of Juneteenth and then sharing their own stories around the topic of acceptance and inclusion.

“We were delighted to collaborate for the first time with Mackenzie Coulter-Kern, director of the Diversity Coalition, on this meaningful event,” said the museum in a release. “The success of our partnership has certainly opened the door for future Community Conversations at the museum.”

The culminating event of this year’s Civic Season at the Museum was a community concert and block party held in the museum’s east parking lot on Friday, July 4. A partnership between the museum and Living Well Downtown, the downtown branch of Living Well in Wabash County CoA, Inc., the free community concert and block party was a huge success.

For the second year in a row, The Bulldogs performed live 50s and 60s music while guests danced and sang along. Local food and drink trucks including Nick’s Dog Cart, Tim’s Thai, Market Street Grill’s The Franklin, The Sweet Shack, Fairfax Coffee, and Sugar Shack joined the event this year.

“Events like this are all about partnership and community. Our organizations have enjoyed providing this event for two years now and hope to make it a 4th of July tradition for years to come,” shared Beverly Ferry, CEO of Living Well in Wabash County.

To learn more about Civic Season and other programming at the Wabash County Museum, or to support our work, contact Teresa Galley at [email protected]. The Wabash County Museum is located at 36 E Market Street in downtown Wabash.

The culminating event of this year’s Civic Season at the Museum was a community concert and block party held in the museum’s east parking lot on Friday, July 4. For the second year in a row, The Bulldogs performed live 50s and 60s music while guests danced and sang along.