The Jackson Purchase Historical Society will meet on April 25th in the Conference Center in the park office building at Columbus Belmont State Park beginning at 10:30 AM. The park is in Columbus, Kentucky off State Highway 123. The program, “Kentucky and Tennessee Connections to the Sultana Disaster,” will be presented by Jerry O. Potter. The Sultana Disaster of April 27, 1865 was a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi River near Memphis that killed 1,167 people, many of whom were Union soldiers returning home from Confederate prison camps. Potter is the author of The Sultana Tragedy: America’s Greatest Maritime Disaster…