Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum & Gardens

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Paranormal Tour & Murder Mystery Event on the Same Night!
July 26

Tinker will be hosting a Speakeasy Murder Mystery Night from 6-8pm and a Paranormal Tour from 8-10 on Saturday, July 26.

The Speakeasy Murder Mystery allows guests to actively explore the formal rooms of the house as they try to figure out who-dun-it. Cost is $20 per member, $25 for non-member.

The Paranormal Tour will be in conjunction with Haunted Rockford. B prepared to feel the hair on the back of your neck rise as you listen to the evidence gathered at the Tinker Cottage and other places in Rockford before going on your own investigation with PIM. cost is $30

Hukilau
August 7, 2014

A night of tropical Hawaiian food and entertainment by Aloha Chicago where you will be introduced to the various dances of the Polynesian Islands including Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa and New Zealand. There will be beautiful costume changes, amazing hula dance prop performance, stunning male drummer performer and fun audience participation. So come, enjoy a night of festive entertainment to help commemorate Tinker's new exhibit: Feel the Life of Hawaii.

Date: August 7, 2014

Location: Klehm Arboretum 2715 South Main Street, Rockford, IL 61102

Program:
6:00-7:00 Cocktail Hour & Garden Walks
7:00-8:00 Buffet Dinner & Performance by Aloha Chicago

Tickets Pricing
$50 per person
$90 per couple
$360 per table of 8

Feel the Life of Hawaii
May 20– December 14

Robert Hall Tinker was born in the Hawaiian Islands on December 31, 1836 to Reuben and Mary Throop Wood Tinker. The Tinker family moved to the Hawaiian Islands in the 1830s to become missionaries. Many early missionaries knew that they would probably never return home and devoted their lives to saving the souls of natives, or die trying. While there, the family was involved in many religious, ceremonial, and practical movements by both the Board of Foreign Missions and the native Hawaiians. When Robert Tinker was 10 years old, his father decided that it was growing harder to provide a good Christian upbringing to his growing nest and to continue with his missionary work. The family left the islands and returned to America with many artifacts, and unique experiences gained from their time on the islands.

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