Adrian Cline, Superintendent of DeSoto County schools, will talk about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the DeSoto County Historical Society’s regular monthly meeting. Free and open to the public, the event is today at the Family Service Center Annex (old West Elementary School cafeteria) at the corner of N. Orange Ave. and W. Effie St.

Available for $5 at 11:30 a.m., lunch is soup and sandwiches — in remembrance of the “soup kitchens” of the Great Depression — plus dessert. At noon, President Bebe Jackson will conduct a short business meeting before she introduces Cline who will speak about his favorite subject: the 32nd president.