Café Murder mystery show and dinner will be Aug. 30/31 in downtown Louisa

By Roberta Cantrell

BSN Editor

Rehearsals are underway for a dinner /mystery play to be performed at the Fred M. Vinson Museum, 315 E. Madison St., on Friday and Saturday, August 30 and 31. The play revolves around a woman and her three sisters who are out celebrating her birthday at a place called Café Murder with an ending impossible to predict. The play is by Nathan Hartswick.

A catered dinner will be served at 7 p.m., followed by the play. Tickets for the dinner/show are $25 per person or $45 for couple.

The cast members and crew consist of the museum staff and local volunteers who have come together in this fundraiser to help preserve the museum, the birthplace of the great Fred M. Vinson of Louisa.

Frederick “Fred” Moore Vinson (January 22, 1890 – September 8, 1953) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th Chief Justice of the United States from 1946, until his death in 1953. Vinson was one of the few Americans to have served in all three branches of the U.S. government.

Before becoming chief justice, Vinson served as a Representative from Kentucky, from 1924 to 1928 and 1930 to 1938, as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1938 to 1943, and as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1945 to 1946.

For reservations for the dinner and play call the museum, Wednesday thru Saturday, 10 a.m. -3 p.m., 606-638-0078, 606-686-3588 or 606-673-3127 anytime.