The Upper Vandalia Historical Society met on Sunday, April 24, at the Bancroft Church of God Mission. The topic of the meeting was show and tell.

Hotch Parkins of Poca brought several books about Naomi Hazeltine Gibson Craigo, who was born in 1909 on Heizer Creek. The books were edited by her granddaughter, Christina Craigo. The memoir-style books told about the Plymouth community, which was once a coal town in Putnam’s industrial days in the…