The Cane Creek Cemetery in Ballard County will have an “Open Cemetery” event on Sunday, October 28 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tours will begin at 2:15. The cemetery is located on Slater Road (Hwy 1290) behind Cane Creek Church north of Wickliffe. The event will inform visitors on what can be done to care for neglected and forgotten cemeteries. Presentations will be made by Circuit Judge Timothy A. Langford and Judge Executive Vickie Viniard starting at 3:45. George Bell, of John W. Bell Monument Works in Cairo, Illinois, will display tools that he uses to hand carve monuments.…

The Fall Meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society will be held in Martin, Tennesse on November 3rd at the Weldon Public Library, 100 Main Street, at 10 a.m. The program will begin at 10:30 a.m. The featured speaker will be Richard Saunders, Interim Director of Library Services at the University of Tennesse at Martin. His presentation is titled “Race and Population Shifts in the Jackson Purchase and West Tennessee.” He is the author of Never Been Rich the Life and Work of a Southern Ruralist Writer, Harry Harrison Kroll and numerous articles on racial demographics, civil rights movements and…