The Northwest Oklahoma Genealogy Society October program will be, “The Old Avard Road Unsolved Mystery of 1956.”

The Oct. 13 meeting will be at 10:30 a.m. at the Alva Public Library. The guest speaker will be Alica Hall who is a 2017 graduate in American Studies from Northwestern Oklahoma State University (NWOSU) and a graduate of NWOSU's theatre program in 2012.

Growing up, Hall learned about local history and World War II from her grandfather Boad Steward of Alva and she learned about the Civil War after her mother introduced her to the movie “Gone With the Wind.” In 2010 Hall discovered the...