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…

The Jackson Purchase Historical Society will meet on Saturday, May 21, at 10:30 a.m. at Wickliffe Mounds State Park, 94 Green Street, Wickliffe, Kentucky. Our speaker will be Carla Hildebrand, who has been at the park for a number of years and has been manager of the Wickliffe Mounds State Park since 2004. The park has a very long and rich prehistorical story to tell as a human habitation and cultural site. Probably more than can be discussed fully in a single program. Among the topics Carla’s presentation will address are the occupation of the site by the Mississippian culture…