Battle of Cape Girardeau will be topic of presentation

Scott House will be featured as a speaker for the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of Cape Girardeau's meeting Wednesday.

House, a retired teacher, will give a slide presentation and talk on the April 1863 Battle of Cape Girardeau.

"I've given the presentation a couple times [elsewhere]," he said. "It's probably 25 minutes long. We decided it would be a good idea to, on occasion, have a topic on the history of Cape Girardeau to broaden the horizons."

He will take questions after the talk.

Historic Preservation Commission's meeting is at 7 p.m. Wednesday in City Hall's council chamber, 401 Independence St.