The Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will meet on Saturday July 16 at 10:30 am at the Second Christian Church on 512 E. Water Street in Mayfield. Our principal speaker will be Jayne Moore Waldrop who will present a two-part program. She will discuss and read from her collection of short stories, Drowned Town, she will also discuss her forthcoming children’s books on Ellis Wilson and Helen LaFrance, African American painters from Mayfield. She will be joined in his by Michael McBride, the illustrator for the Ellis Wilson book. Copies of Drowned Town will be available for purchase and signing…
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Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from July 13, 1872 • Dan Steele, contractor for the West Hickman Levee, advertised that he required additional laborers and would pay $1.50 a day. He expected the work to last until Christmas. • The son of Judge John W. Wingate, Harry Wingate, drowned earlier in the week at Uniontown, Kentucky. • Jonah Montgomery drove into Hickman on July 11th with his wife and daughter when the horse leading his buggy “took fright” and dashed through the streets of town before overturning and throwing the family “into the gutter.” No serious injuries were…