Scholar For Life

Jackson District Library and Jackson College present: Scholar For Life, a series of talks by Jackson College instructors for Teens and Adults interested in life-long learning.

For over a year, a group of Jackson College Heritage Center students pored through journals, tax records and antique photos as they research Michigan settlers.  Time after time, they returned to an 1840 cobbler’s diary belonging to Josiah Pond, with the penciled command, “Remember me!” Josiah was the great-great- grandfather of Jackson Junior College student and World War II hero, Lt. Zenneth Pond.

Jackson College Professor, Diane Agy, Maher Endowed Chair for Regional History, will show documents and diaries from the local area during the 1700s and 1800s, followed by a lecture on the Ponds, a Jackson family, and a short document film.