The Jackson Purchase Historical Society will meet on Saturday, May 16 at the Calloway County Public Library at 710 Main Street in Murray, Kentucky. The meeting will begin at 10:30 am. The program for the meeting will feature a presentation by Richard B. Davis on “Feeling the Hot Breath of History: The Influence of Forrest Carlisle Pogue on US Military History.” Forrest Carlisle Pogue graduated from Murray State and taught history there from 1933 to May 1942, when he was drafted into the army. He was quickly assigned to a historical unit and sent to Europe. He was initially assigned…

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…