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The Watauga Association of Genealogists will meet at the Johnson City Public Library and online via Zoom on Tuesday, April 1, at 6:30 p.m.

The Zoom link can be found on the first page of the WAGS website at https://wagsnetn.org//. The public is invited to attend all WAGS meetings.

The guest speaker for the April meeting is Dr. Colin F. Baxter, a native of Harrow, England. He received his undergraduate degree in history from East Tennessee State University in 1961 and earned his master’s degree and Ph.D. in history from the University of Georgia in 1963 and 1965, respectively. He returned to ETSU to teach history in 1971 and became chairman of ETSU’s history department in 2002.

Dr. Baxter will speak on the explosive RDX and its production in Kingsport and Hawkins County. In the 1940s, RDX proved to be pivotal in the Battle of the Atlantic and directly contributed to the Allied victory in World War II.