UPPER LAKE, Calif. – The Redwood Empire Civil War Roundtable will meet Monday, Nov. 5, starting at 6:15 p.m. at the Tallman Hotel in Upper Lake.

Mark Cooper will do a presentation on Civil War blockade running, the very dangerous but highly profitable business of maintaining trade to Southern ports through the Union blockade.

Cooper, who also is a well-known dentist in Clearlake, is an amateur historian who has studied and visited many Civil War-era locations, and brings a very unique perspective to the group.

There will also be a review of the events of November, 1862, as the group has been following the war month by month in recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

For more information, contact Phil Smoley 707-264-4905, or Zane Jensen, 707-349-6390.