Historical Society’s big, beautiful July
Special to The Standard
The Butler County Historical & Genealogical Society has a wonderful July planned for members, friends, and the public.
BCHGS will be participating in the Greenville Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Fourth of July Celebration.
Everyone looks forward to the Celebrate America fireworks each year, but this year will be especially meaningful because of America’s 250th anniversary.
The Historical Society will have a booth at the event, and the Chamber is planning special activities including a tribute to veterans.
As a special Semiquincentennial event, the Historical Society has partnered with Director Kevin Pearcey and the Greenville-Butler County Public Library to bring the traveling exhibit William Bartram and Alabama to the library for the month of July.
Everyone is cordially invited to the exhibit’s opening reception which will be held at the library on Thursday, July 9, from 5-7 p.m.
The exhibit is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University.
BCHGS President Pamala Nolan invites everyone to attend and walk through Butler County history. “One of the most wonderful events that happened in our area is that a world-renowned author, artist, and naturalist traveled through what would become Butler County on the eve of the American Revolution.”
Then, on Sunday, July 26 at 2 p.m., the Society will hold their regular July Quarterly Meeting at the First Methodist Church Fellowship Hall in Greenville.
The speaker will be Alabama Humanities Alliance Road Scholar Mike Bunn. Bunn will be discussing his book, Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During the Revolutionary Era, which was awarded the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Award.
The British colony of West Florida once encompassed portions of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The colony’s eventful years are an important, overlooked part of Gulf Coast history. It is the forgotten fourteenth colony of America’s Revolutionary era.
Vice President Melanie Pitts Stonestreet encourages everyone to attend and bring a friend. “Come meet the author and purchase a signed copy of his amazing book.”
This America at 250 presentation is made possible through a Road Scholars’ award from the Alabama Humanities Alliance. Since 1987, AHA’s Road Scholars have crisscrossed Alabama, providing fascinating programming for local communities across the state.
For more information about BCHGS’s Big, Beautiful July, please contact Nolan at [email protected] or 334-453-1111.
