We are delighted to share a holiday gift suggestion. You have a friend or relative that loves history or one from the Jackson Purchase who has moved away. Connect them with Jackson Purchase History through a gift membership. They will receive the award-winning Journal and invitations to all our meetings, which will be on Zoom even after we are able to resume in person meetings. See: https://jacksonpurchasehistoricalsociety.org/become-a-member/ for the details. Best wishes for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, and the New Year. Let’s hope 2021 is not as “interesting” as 2020 has been.
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The Jackson Purchase Historical Society will meet on November 14 via Zoom at 10:30 a.m. To register for the meeting, please send an email to bruce.dobyns@gmail.com. Our speaker will be Richard Parker, a local historian, who will speak on the steamboat’s role as a means of escape in the Underground Railroad. The program is entitled “Escape to Freedom: The Role of the Steamboat in the Underground Railroad.” Parker said, “The Jackson Purchase is surrounded by the Tennessee, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers,” Parker continued, “which acted as an interstate for slaves moving North seeking their freedom.” “Thousands of slaves worked on…