Hugh Ridenour, the Humanities speaker came across with a great informative event on Sunday, February 24th, 2008

The topic was based on A Surgeon's Tale

Life and Death in the Orphan Brigade

This event was held in the USA Presbyterian Church.

It was wonderful to see such a wonderful gathering of people
and the highlight was to see so many young students from
Logan County High School

Hugh Ridenour earned a master's degree in history from Western
Kentucky University. He is a veteran teacher of 28 years in Kentucky's public school system and a member of the Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau. His book, The Greens of Falls of Rough: A Kentucky

Family Biography 1795-1965, was selected in 1999 by the Kentucky
Historical Society as one of the ten best books published on Kentucky
history in the previous four years. Mr. Ridenour has been published in both the Filson Club Quarterly and the Kentucky Historical Society Register. He was the 1999 recipient of the Kentucky Historical Society's Richard H. Collins Award for his article about a Confederate Civil War surgeon, the subject of his presentation today. The presentation is titled,