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Wednesday’s Sojourner Truth Week event

Sons of Union Veterans of Civil War honors Civil War veterans Submitted article Members of Henry Casey Camp No. 92 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War place a Memorial Day wreath at the grave site of General James W. Denver in Sugar Grove Cemetery. From left are: Michael Sutton; Joe Daugherty, Camp Commander; Shawn Cox, Patriotic Instructor; James L Grim; John Harker; Kelly Hopkins, Junior Vice Commander; Charles Rose; and Shane Milburn, Secretary. Submitted photo Joe Daugherty, Commander of Henry Casey Camp 92 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), conducted a Memorial Day wr...

ANGOLA — Angola will start June with a celebration of abolitionist and suffragette Sojourner Truth. Truth spent about a month in Steuben County surrounding the time she gave a speech on June 2, 1861, at the Steuben County Courthouse. Speaking out against slavery and in favor of the Civil War, Truth stood 6-feet tall in the face of local Republicans and anti-abolitionist Democrats alike who sought to arrest her for even stepping foot in the state, let alone protesting. In recognition of her deeds, the Downtown Angola Coalition commissioned a statue of Truth from Indiana native James Haire...

Determined reader wins bike, helmet ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette Lynn Flick wasn't surprised one of her Glenwood Park Elementary School students earned the top prize in a statewide reading competition for third graders. Kapmuan Sang was determined to get the bicycle and helmet given to top readers, she said. “He was so far ahead of everybody,” Flick said. As Kapmuan paged his way through books including the “Dog Man” and “Zeke Meeks” series, he tracked his progress in Read to the Final Four through a digital literacy platform powered by Renaissance myON. He logged more tha...

True West Magazine “Doc Holliday is ten feet tall and weighs a ton.” — J.J. Webb at the Old Town Las Vegas Jail, 1880 This photo first came to our attention when it appeared in Frederick Nolan’s book The West of Billy the Kid. Nolan published it, in part, because the Kid spent time in this jail in December 1880, when Pat Garrett escorted him and members of his gang to Santa Fe. Recently some historians have speculated that Holliday is in the photograph, to the right of Webb (in shackles). True West Archives The first time we saw this historical group photo taken in Las Vegas, New Mexi...