The Superior Express -

This is a big week for the community of Superior for it is time for the 31st Lady Vestey Victorian Festival. In honor of the late Lew Hunter and his contribution to Superior, this year’s festival theme is the “Reel Story, Let the Credits Roll.” Hunter was an acclaimed screen writer and UCLA Professor who in his retirement years made Superior his home and taught screen writing classes in the Victorian style Day Home. The Day Home currently has eight bedrooms but that was never enough to hold the aspiring writers who poured into Superior to attend his screen writing colonies. One of those who regularly participated in the colony has written a tribute to Hunter which appears in this issue.

Many members of the Hunter family, former students and people associated with the film industry will be in Superior this week to attend his memorial service.

A grandson’s band will be playing for a dance Saturday night at the Superior Auditorium to which everyone is invited. Admission will be free.

Members of the Hunter family will be recognized at the parade. Lew was a former festival chairman and he and his wife Pam were honored previously as grand marshals of the parade. This year the entire family is serving as the parade grand marshals.

A documentary movie made about Lew Hunter will be shown at the Crest on Saturday along with a film made of Beverly Beavers last portrayal of Lady Vestey. The films will be shown at 9:30 and 11 a.m. and at 1 p.m. Admission will be free.

The weekend events start Friday and continue through Monday.

At 7 Friday night, Horizon Bank is sponsoring a free movie at the Crest. The Superior County Club is again sponsoring Grill Games from 5 to 7 p.m.

Saturday events include the Race to Remember which will depart from Fourth and Central at 8 a.m. Registration begins at 7 a.m. There will be options for both 1 mile and 5K walks and runs.

The FFA petting zoo will be open on the Ideal Title Lot from 8 to 10 a.m. The vendors’ market returns to Superior Auditorium from 9 to 3 p.m.

Parade registration opens at 9 a.m., lineup is a 10 for the parade which is scheduled to begin at 10. The parade will proceed south on Central Avenue from Eighth to Fourth. At Fourth, the parade turns west and returns to the starting point in the Superior School parking lot.

There will be an antique car show after the parade on Central Avenue.

Rock-It Events will return with popular carnival type rides from 11 to 3 p.m. The rides will be set up on Commercial Avenue between Third and Fifth.

The Nuckolls County Museum will be open on both Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The Cowboy Museum located in the former Elks Club building will open at 11 Saturday morning.

Brodstone Healthcare is sponsoring a watermelon feed in the downtown area Saturday noon.

The Victorian Tea will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Vestey Center. The guest speaker will be Rachel Olson from the Willa Cather Center. Cather and Evelyn Brodstone were good friends and in the young days they rode bicycles between their homes in Red Cloud and Superior. When the original Brodstone Hospital was built, Cather wrote the dedication plaque.

One of the new Montana Villa Houses will be open for inspection form 3 to 5 on Saturday afternoon.

There will be a number of food vendors and other food options in Superior on Saturday.

The pace slows somewhat on Sunday. The Harvest Christian Church will sponsor a worship service 10:30 in the City Park bandshell. Brodstone Healthcare and the Nuckolls County Historical Society will serve brats and burgers in the city park from noon until 1 p.m.

At 1 p.m. Sunday there will be a concert in the City Park Band Shell. The creators of The Great Plains Opry, at Alma, Nebraska, vocalists Cindy Boehler and Alexa Boehler will be performing. As seating in the park is limited, those attending are encouraged to bring along a lawn chair. Giggles & Mini will return to downtown Superior on Saturday.

There will be lots of food options available both from local organizations and out of town food trucks.