KEVIN RAUCH/For The Express Rich Wykoff took on a primarily comedic part on Saturday, insisting that everyone needed to buy one of his hats, even offering one up to an audience member.

RENOVO — Year after year, the Greater Renovo Area Heritage Park can seamlessly combine history, humor and a whole lot of talent in their annual murder mystery dinner, and this year was truly no exception to the standard that they have set.

In the backdrop of camp 77 at Shingle Branch, fantasy was intertwined with facts at the Elks Lodge in Renovo.

The evening started out with Dr. Frank Redmond performing on stage as he gave history lessons of the Civilian Conservation Corps Camps, the majority of which came through the teachings of the locally famed Leonard Parucha. Parucha was a CCC employee and eventual author and lecturer of the camps and their contributions to influencing the development of western Clinton County.

With the audience having an understanding of the history of the CCC days and Parucha’s teachings thanks to Redmond’s tutorial it was then time for the talent to hit the stage.

The acting had the audience convinced some of the characters were truly angered, aloof or full of revenge as they tried to solve who the guilty party was.

Breaks in the action featured singing, as well as the meal, as another successful evening where history was taught and laughs were had thanks to the Greater Renovo Area Heritage Park.