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…

The March meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will be held at the Dyer County Historical Society Museum in the Professional Development Center located at 305 College Street in Dyersburg, Tennessee beginning at 10:30 am. This is a joint meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society, the West Tennessee Historical Society, and the West Tennessee Heritage Initiative, an informal consortium of archives, local history libraries, and historic sites. The meeting will focus on historic preservation projects, specifically state historic markers and nominating properties to the National Register of Historic Places. Historians, archivists, librarians, and others interested in historic…