The Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will meet on Saturday November 4 at 10:30 am at the Martin Public Library 410 South Lindell Street in Martin. Those who have attended JPHS meetings in Martin in the past should note that this is the NEW library building. This will be JPHS’s last meeting for 2023. The meeting is being held in connection with the Smithsonian Institution’s travelling exhibit, Voices and Votes: Democracy in America. The speaker will be Mark Dudney, Historic Preservation Planner and Dale Hollow Rural Planning Organization Coordinator from Cookeville, Tennessee. His topic is, “A Place at the Table:…

The Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will meet on Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 10:30 am in the Community Room of the Graves County Public Library in Mayfield. The speaker will be Betty Johnson of MOUNT (Many Old Unique Needy Tombstones), Inc. who will discuss their cemetery preservation efforts and how other communities can adopt them. The Society is pleased to be part of the month-long Haunted Graves celebration and to be working with the Graves County Public Library. The program may be available by ZOOM, but we will send a 2nd email if that is worked out. Betty describes…