Brocton legion hosts car show

BROCTON — American Legion Post 434, 110 W. Main St., Brocton will host a car show on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. There will be hot dogs and hamburgers, Stray Cat Karaoke, t-shirts by 716 Creative.com, a silent auctions, 50/50 and a pin-up girl contest. For details or to pre-register, contact Skip Halladay, 716 673-5381, car show chairman. This is a scholarship and community projects funding event.

Sons of Legion meets Tuesday

Sons of the American Legion Squadron 59 will be holding its monthly meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Post 59, 156 E. Main St., Fredonia.

The Sons of the American Legion, is an organization made up of male descendants from veterans of World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Military Operations of Lebanon, Grenada, Panama and from the Persian Gulf War/War on Terrorism. Members support programs in Veterans Rehabilitation, Children and Youth, Student Scholarships and Community Affairs. Membership now numbers nearly 30,000 within the Detachment of New York with over 350,00 members nationwide.

Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of month at Post 59.

Conservation

district meets

this morning

Chautauqua County Soil & Water Conservation District will hold its monthly board meeting today at 8:30 a.m. The meeting will take place at the Chautauqua County Soil & Water Conservation District office on 220 Fluvanna Avenue, Suite 600, Jamestown. The purpose of this meeting is to approve the district’s spending, projects, and to ensure the production of Soil & Water is on track. If you have questions or would like to attend, call the office at 716-664-2351 x5.

Tourgee is focus of historical talk

The Chautauqua Town Historical Society will host a program on Albion Tourgee on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Chautauqua Town Building (former Mayville School building) meeting room, 2 Academy St. The speaker is Mike Rohlin, who is a local historian and history teacher at Chautauqua Lake Central School.

Tourgee defended Plessy in the famous 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case that yielded the “separate but equal” ruling. Tourgee is credited with the expression “color blind justice,” for which he fought his entire adult life.

Tourge was one of the foremost abolitionists before the Civil War. During Reconstruction he served as a judge in North Carolina. After Reconstruction he turned to writing and publishing. His novel, “A Fool’s Errand,” was a bestseller. He moved to Mayville in 1881, lived here, and continued his successful writing career. He was buried in the Mayville Cemetery.