Honey Springs Battlefield will host Debra Goodrich on Thursday, April 7, at 7 p.m. for a special presentation about the life and career of John Ritchie, a former Union army officer of the Second Indian Home Guard who fought at the Battle of Honey Springs. Goodrich will detail Ritchie?s history beginning with his involvement as an abolitionist in Kansas during the Bleeding Kansas years leading to the Civil War, his involvement as a delegate in two Kansas Constitutional Conventions: Leavenworth (1858) and Wyandotte (1859), and his service as a Union army officer during the Civil War. This will be an after-hours program. Visitors are encouraged to tour the center?s exhibits, purchase items from the Friends of Honey Springs Gift Shop and view the new ?Battle of Honey Springs? film after the program.