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Civil War lecture series will begin Thursday at Boyle library

April 18, 2006

The Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association, a non-profit organization charged with preserving and interpreting Kentucky's largest Civil War battleground, announces the schedule for the inaugural General Lovell H. Rousseau Civil War Lecture Series for 2006. The Rousseau Series is co-sponsored by the PBPA, Boyle County Public Library, and Kentucky Historical Society. Noted speakers from the region and state will speak on a variety of Civil War-related topics.

The free lectures will be held on the third Thursday of each month through December at the Boyle County Public Library. Each event starts at 6:30 p.m.

The first lecture, to be held Thursday, will be presented by Nicky Hughes, editor of Civil War Historian magazine and supervisor of the Leslie Morris Civil War Park at Fort Hill in Frankfort. Hughes, a museum consultant who also is co-author of the two-volume series "Historical Images of Frankfort," will speak on "Kentucky in the Civil War - Always Grasping at Straws."

"We are very excited to partner with the Boyle County Public Library and the Kentucky Historical Society in presenting this series," said PBPA Executive Director Chris Kolakowski. "With the national re-enactment coming to Perryville this October, these lectures will be a great complement to that event."

Other lectures and speakers are:

May 25: Kolakowski

June 15: Betty Jane Gorin of the Tebbs Bend Battlefield Association

July 20: Kentucky's State Historian Dr. James Klotter

Aug. 17: Stuart Sanders of Kentucky Historical Society.

Sept. 21: The Rousseau Series will host a panel discussion on the 1862 Kentucky Campaign that included the battles of Munfordville, Richmond and Perryville. Sanders will moderate the panel and participants will include Kolakowski, Tres Seymour of Munfordville and Paul Rominger of Richmond.

Oct. 19: Jim Prichard from Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Nov. 16: Nationally-recognized Civil War historian Charles Roland.

Dec. 14: Don Rightmyer of Boyle County Public Library.

The Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association is a membership organization charged with preservation and interpretation of Perryville Battlefield and town. It oversees the Perryville Enhancement Project in conjunction with the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Boyle County and the City of Perryville. Since 1991, the project has preserved and interpreted more than 400 acres of critical battlefield land along with several original structures in the City of Perryville.

For more information, contact Christopher L. Kolakowski, executive director of Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association, at (859) 332-1862 or e-mail ckolakowski@perryville.net.

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