The Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will meet on Saturday, May 17 at 10:30 am at Temple Israel at 330 Joe Clifton Dr, Paducah, Kentucky. Our speaker will be Society Vice President Richard D. Parker, who will discuss his research on the Bernheim and Dreyfuss families, formerly of Paducah, Kentucky and their connections to the development of the bourbon industry and major league baseball. People associate Kentucky with bourbon, of course. Baseball typically does not come to mind when one thinks of Kentucky bourbon. Believe it or not, the two go hand-in-hand as the man responsible for baseball’s modern-day success…