The Jackson Purchase Historical Society will hold a virtual meeting on Saturday, June 26 via ZOOM. The meeting will begin at 10:30, but individuals can sign in beginning at 10:00 am. Well-known Kentucky historian Sam Terry IV will speak on “The Veep as the Merry Widower.” His presentation will discuss Alben W. Barkley’s latter years as the “Merry Widower” and his marriage to Jane Rucker Hadley, who wrote a book — “I Married The Veep.” To register for the Zoom session: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vde6rqjMtG9Vg9hyvIBfSCuj3wDipQVtz Alben W. Barkley was born in a log house in Wheel, Graves County, in 1877 and was raised…
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The Zoom presentation given by Berry Craig during the 2021 Spring Meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on April 10, 2021 can now be viewed on the Video Webpage of this website https://jacksonpurchasehistoricalsociety.org/videos/. The title of the program was Kentuckians and Pearl Harbor: Stories from the Day of Infamy and was based upon his book of the same title published earlier in the year.