Join the Sumter Historic Trust for the annual meeting to discuss recent and upcoming events. Light refreshments will be served, and this event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Pamela Tyler will be speaking on Americus in the 1920s. Dr. Tyler earned her B.A. and M.Ed. at Georgia Southwestern, then Ph.D. in History at Tulane University. She held tenured faculty positions at North Carolina State University and then at the University of Southern Mississippi, teaching the history of the American South and the history of women in the United States. Now retired and living in New Orleans, Dr. Tyler enjoys the food and the music, but not the price of flood insurance.

Dr. Tyler is also the author of two books:

Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes: Women and Politics in New Orleans, 1920-1965 (University of Georgia Press 1996) 

New Orleans Women and the Poydras Home: More Durable Than Marble  (LSU Press, 2016)