Musical guests: Double Treble Community moment: Douglas Kulp Featured presentation: Members of the Alexander-Madison Chapter of Buffalo Soldiers will show the short film "The Battle of Island Mound" and answer questions afterward. On a frigid January evening in 1862, 22-year-old George Washington escapes the bonds of slavery in Missouri for free soil in Kansas, and joins the first African-American Union regiment to ever see combat in the Civil War. The outcome of the first-ever battle between those vastly outnumbered former slaves and rebel horsemen, known as Bushwhackers, will play a pivotal…
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