George Webb, History, will present two papers at the Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America in Savannah, Ga., on March 29-30. Approximately 750 geoscientists are expected to attend the meeting hosted at Georgia Southern University. Webb will present "The Historical Development of Evolutionary Concepts," which details the development of evolutionary explanations during the 19th and 20th centuries. He also will present "Geology in the Reconstructed South: The 1877 AAAS Meeting in Nashville." Also at the meeting, student Joshua Gentry will present a poster entitled "Mapping High-Terrace Deposits in Karst Terrain, East-Central Tennessee," a poster co-presented by Hugh Mills and Michael Harrison, Earth Sciences.

Earl Hutchison, English/Journalism, will be the first guest speaker in the Author Series sponsored by the Putnam County Library Friends. His presentation will be “A Reflection on Memoirs,” which will focus on his memoir, Growing Up on the Illinois Prairie during the Great Depression and the Coal Mine Wars: A Portrayal of the Way Life Was. The program will be on Sunday, March 25, at 3 p.m. in the Lower Meeting Room of the Putnam County Library and is free and open to the public.

Michael Birdwell and Calvin Dickinson of History and Homer Kemp, English, will discuss their book, Upper Cumberland Historic Architecture, Sunday, April 1, at 3 p.m. at the second in the Author series sponsored by the Putnam County Library Friends.