The Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will meet on Saturday, April 23, at 10:30 a.m. at the City of Martin Public Library, 410 South Lindell Street, Martin, TN. Our speaker will be Jenna Stoker Wright. “A Musical Legacy: My Uncle Gordon, the Jordanaires, and Elvis.” The Jordanaires were an American vocal quartet that formed as a gospel group in 1948 in Missouri. Over the years, they recorded both sacred and secular music as a solo act for various record companies. In the early 1950s, they began lending their vocal talents to featured artists as background vocalists in recording sessions. They…

The Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will meet on Saturday March 19 at 10:30 am at the Emerging Technology Center, West Kentucky Community and Technical College on Blandville Road (US 62). Our speaker will George G. Humphreys who will discuss his recent book The Fall of Kentucky’s Rock: Western Kentucky Democratic Politics since the New Deal. The publisher describes the book as (an) “in-depth study offers a new examination of a region that is often overlooked in political histories of the Bluegrass State. George G. Humphreys traces the arc of politics and the economy in western Kentucky from avid support…