Ian Hardin grew up in the fifties and early sixties while Birmingham was embroiled in the Civil Rights Movement. Bull Connor, the notorious Birmingham Police Commissioner, was in Hardin's Dad's Sunday School class, and the events of the 50's and early 60's were part of Ian's vivid growing-up experiences. This will be the story of coming from Scotland to a different and sometimes turbulent world.

This class will cover the fascinating story of a less-well-known historical figure. In 1802, Buck Oowatie was born into a prominent European-Cherokee family. Buck’s father believed his children should receive the best education possible, so young Buck was first sent to the Moravian Mission School at Spring Place and then to the Foreign Mission School (known as the “Heathen School”) in Cornwall, Connecticut. On his way to Cornwall, Buck stopped in Virginia where he met Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. Once at Cornwall, Buck met Elias Boudinot. Boudinot played an important role in the founding of the United States. Buck was so impressed with Boudinot he asked if he could adopt his name.

This class concerns an historically-based family biography. Son of Polish immigrants, a 21-year old Army Air Force Staff Sargent had a life-long struggle with trauma that started when his B-17 aircraft was shot down by a German fighter over Berlin in 1944. He was on his 18th mission. Presenter Perkins’ book details her father’s survival as a POW for 14 months in three German concentration camps and the 83-day ‘Long March’ across Poland and Germany in the harsh winter of 1945. The severe and persistent war traumas her father endured were horrific, and his journey was difficult and life changing.