Bette J. Kauffman. Speaker at today's NLGHS meeting.

Bette gave a wonderful talk at the monthly meeting, held today, of the North Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society. Bette is a professor at the University of Louisiana at Monroe in the Department of Communication.

I enjoyed the presentation. The talk was about the diary of a girl who lived in Monroe during the Civil War.

She was a patriotic Southern Belle who was crushed by the war's outcome. Bette's talk gave many interesting anecdotes about life in Monroe during the Civil War.