ANGOLA, IN - As part of the week long celebration leading up to the unveiling of the Sojourner Truth statue at the Steuben County Courthouse, Trine University is hosting a Civil War lecture early Wednesday evening.

Mike Sutton, adjunct professor in Trine University’s Department of History and Political Science, will be giving the lecture starting at 4 p.m. at Trine’s Wells Theatre in Taylor Hall. Sutton’s presentation is titled “Sojourner Truth in the context of the Second Great Awakening and the ferment of American Reform”.

On Thursday, the Sojourner Truth Exhibit opens at the newly opened Pleasant Lake History Museum. Truth was believed to have spent a significant amount of time in Pleasant Lake. The exhibit will be open from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The Downtown Angola Coalition’s ceremony to unveil a life-size statue of Sojourner Truth will take place on Sunday, June 6, at 2 p.m. at the Steuben County Courthouse on the Public Square in downtown Angola. The statue commemorates the speech given by Truth on the porch of the Steuben County Courthouse that took place 160 years ago today (June 2, 1861).