Join historian/storyteller, Bill May, for the fascinating and heart warming story of the creation of McConnells Mill State Park through the lives and friendship of Civil War Captain Thomas McConnell and Mose Wharton, a freed slave from North Carolina.  Bill May will detail the Civil War service of McConnell and how Mose Wharton went from being born a slave on a southern plantation to spending 72 years helping the McConnell family operate and preserve one of Western Pennsylvania's  most beautiful state parks.

The public is welcome to this meeting of Moraine, McConnells Mill and Jennings Commission (3MJC), a non-profit friends group that supports these three parks.  Meetings are help the third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM at Jennings EEC (2951 Prospect Road, Slippery Rock, PA). Unless otherwise noted, the programs are not presented by Jennings staff and may not represent the views of the Bureau of State Parks/DCNR.