The Osher Institute would like to invite you to an excursion of Marysville and Marshall Counties. The group will stop in Waterville for a 40-minute ride on the Union Pacific Central Branch Railroad, one of the oldest routs in Kansas, followed by lunch at the Weaver Hotel and a tour of the Waterville Opera House.

The group will head to Blue Rapids and see the Round Town Square and its Ice Age Monument and pass the site of a 1913 Major League Baseball game between the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox.

The trip will finish by visiting Marysville and its Pony Express Museum and the Koester House.

Transportation will depart from the Village Entrance at 8:40 a.m. and will return back to Manhattan at approximately 5:30 p.m. The $65 fee will include transportation, admissions and lunch. If interested, please register before Tuesday, Sept. 15, at www.osher.ku.edu.