Super fun at Smallville celebration at Third Thursday
Jennifer Randall
There will be SUPER activities with art and live music and the Annual Smallville Costume Contest.
Smallville celebrations began back in 2012, when Christopher Wietrick, KC McNeely and Ben Eisiminger set up a Smallville information booth downtown at Gallery 7, during a May Third Thursday. The premise of this event was to tie in the overwhelming similarities of the story of Superman and Smallville to the Hutchinson, Kansas area. It didn’t take much to convince the community, as the evidence was plentiful.
Wietrick explains three connections between the two,
“In the TV series, the population of Smallville is 45,001. Hutchinson’s population is about 42,000.