Due to the ongoing public health crisis, we are postponing the April 25th meeting to a future date. As soon as we have a rescheduled date we will share that with our members through various contact methods – email, our Facebook page, and here on our website. We are still optimistic about our mid-July meeting and will continue to monitor the situation. Thank you for understanding.

The next meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society will take place on Saturday, March 7th at the Hotel Metropolitan at 724 Oscar Cross Ave in Paducah, Kentucky, beginning at 10:30 am. The meeting will feature Christopher L. Thornock, an archaeologist and the Heritage Program Manager at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. The topic will be “African-American Lives and Landscapes on the Lower Tennessee River.” The African American heritage of the southern United States is rich and much more complex than the commonly discussed topics of plantation slavery and the civil rights movement. Thornock’s presentation delves into the…