Nov. 16 Meeting - Jon Fairchild

Join Jonathan Fairchild, Park Historian at Homestead National Monument to learn more about the fascinating history right in our own backyard. 

NOTE: We are at the Talon Room for this meeting. 

Also, membership-potential guests eat Free! 

Jonathan Fairchild is the Historian at Homestead National Historical Park, a unit of the National Park Service in Beatrice, Nebraska, dedicated to telling the story of the American homesteader. He has been in that position since February 2019, and has been with the National Park Service since 2017, previously serving as an Archives Technician at Keweenaw National Historical Park.

He was born and raised in Texas, and received his bachelor's degree in U.S. History from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and his Master's degree in U.S. History from the University of Houston, where he is currently a doctoral candidate. His most recent project is on the link between homesteading and the suffrage movement, and that women homesteaders were integral to the passage of the 19th Amendment, securing the vote for women.