The annual meeting of the Jamestown Historical Society will take place on Thursday, Aug. 14, at the library.

A business meeting and election of officers will begin at 7 p.m., and then guest speaker Dr. Robert Thorson will give a talk at 7:30 p.m.

Thorson is a professor of geology at the University of Connecticut, and author of "Stone by Stone: the Magnificent History of Stone Walls in New England," which will be the topic of the talk.

Refreshments will follow and all are invited.