The October meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society will be hosted by the Kentucky Dam Village State Park on Saturday, October 19 beginning at 10:30 am in the Henry Ward Building, the main lodge at the park, 166 Upper Village Inn Drive in Gilbertsville. The meeting will focus on the construction of Kentucky Dam, the last of the TVA high dams that transformed life in the Tennessee River Valley. The National Hydropower Association is joining us, as a co-sponsor. The program will feature Robert L. Underwood, author of the recently published Dam It! Electrifying America and Taming Her Waterways.…