June 21 – Reelfoot Lake: Oasis on the Mississippi [Book Signing], Jim Johnson – Obion County Public Library, 1221 East Reelfoot Avenue, Union City, Tennessee – Co-Sponsor: Obion County Historical Society. July 19 – Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence [Book Signing], Stuart Sanders – Calloway County Public Library, 710 Main Street, Murray, Kentucky. August 16 – Women’s Suffrage in Tennessee, Renee LaFleur – The Discovery Park of America, 830 Everett Boulvard, Union City, Tennessee. September 20 – The Career of Henry Ward [Book Signing], Sharon Roggenkamp – Henry Ward Building (Main Lodge)…
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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…