Bemis Historical Society meets the third Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. at Bemis Mill Village Museum located at 2 North Missouri Street in Jackson, TN. Annual membership dues are $25 for individual and family memberships.
Programs in 2019
January 15 – No meeting
February 19 – Bill Hollamon – Aerial Media’s videos of Bemis and the surrounding area
March 19 – Stan Pilant – Bemis Mill Memorial Park & Hwy 45 Bypass South
April 16 – Lorri Skelton – Interesting Information in the Madison County Archives
May 21 – No meeting due to Bemis Heritage Days on May 17-18
June 18 – Larry Hearn – Irish Town in Jackson, TN during the 1880s through 1960s
July 16 – Anna Wulfert Kirk – Wulfert Family and Their Struggles Surviving WWII and Coming to America
August 20 – Ricky Long – More Than Names on a Wall – The World War II Dead from Madison County, TN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81ZT59Ke8XU&feature=youtu.be
September 17 – Gwen McReynolds – Dowsing for Unmarked Graves and Cleaning Tombstones
October 15 – Kenneth Newman – When We Were Yours – Fact and Fiction Concerning Georgia Tann
November – Alice Holtin – Remembering World War II
December – No meeting
Programs in 2020
January – No meeting
February 18 – Kathy Haney Williams – US Census Records in Bemis, TN ~ 1910-2020
March 17 – Rodger Holtin – American Pop Songs Inspired by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
April 21 – Penny Stutzman – Bemis Book Club’s 90th Anniversary (Organized April 14, 1930)
May 19 – No meeting due to Bemis Heritage Days on May 15-16
June 16 – Robert Gaugh – Civil War Veterans in Bemis, TN
July 21 –
August 18 – Jackie Utley – 100th Anniversary of 19th Amendment to US Constitution
September 15 –
October 20 –
November 17 – Veterans Day Program
December – No meeting