TCHS will welcome Dr. Steve Collins for his program “In the Eye of the Border Storm: The Under Ground Railroad at Quindaro, Kansas Territory 1857.”

The presentation will focus on the history of this Free State town (in Wyandotte County) and its Underground Railroad from the arrival of the Wyandot Natives to the issue of the final copy of The Quindaro Chindowan newspaper in the summer of 1858.

This month’s Fourth Tuesday program will be 7 p.m. Aug. 22 at the historic site museum.

Collins was project manager/grant administrator of the only official stabilization of the Quindaro Ruins, implementing a $400,000 Save America’s Treasures Grant in 2006.

He was chair of the sociology department at Kansas City Kansas Community College where he taught for 35 years. He has led students and the public in more than 25 tours of the ruins and he has presented numerous times in the past twenty years about the history of the site. He was the first community college instructor in Kansas to be awarded the Carnegie Foundation Instructor of the Year award in 1998 in recognition for his early stabilization work and teaching about the history of Quindaro, and his pioneering of student internet development.

The meeting will be 7-8:30 p.m. Aug. 22. It will start with a brief business meeting followed by the program at the museum, 201 W. Washington St.

The historical society has different monthly programs the fourth Tuesday of each month at the historic site campus.