The monthly meeting of the Macoupin County Historical Society will be Monday, Aug. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Ruyle Building on the historical grounds in Carlinville.

The speaker for this month is Bill Iseminger who will be sharing about "Prehistoric Indians of Southern Illinois." Southern Illinois has been occupied by American Indian cultural traditions since 9500 BC and this program reviews these traditions, their lifestyles, artifacts, beliefs and customs as revealed by archaeological excavations and analyses. Culture change is represented from the earliest Paleo-Indian nomads who hunted mammoths...