UPDATE: Meeting canceled due to weather. See story for details.
The Jackson Purchase Historical Society holds its first meeting of 2011 Saturday at Wrather Museum on Murray State's campus. And in honor of the U.S. Civil War Sesquicentennial, the speaker will be MSU history professor, Civil War historian, and Fulbright scholar Dr. William Mulligan. He sits down with us first to talk about the war's relevance and the role the Jackson Purchase played in the conflict.