Join us for Storytime on the Side Porch at the Eudora Welty House & Garden. The Eudora Welty House & Garden will present free summer book readings and activities for children in partnership with the Mississippi Library Commission. This series will continue weekly on Thursdays June 8, 15, 22, and 29. For more information, visit https://welty.mdah.ms.gov/events, or email info@eudoraweltyhouse.com.
Visitors are invited to a screening of the documentaries The Loyola Project (88 minutes) and One Night in March (26 minutes) at the Two Mississippi Museums. On March 15, 1963, the Mississippi State University (MSU) men's basketball team defied segregationist opposition when it played against an integrated team, the Loyola University Ramblers, in the 1963 NCAA Tournament.
Join us for a reading and book signing with Katy Simpson Smith in conversation with Kathryn Savage at the Eudora Welty House & Garden at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 4, courtesy of Lemuria Books. Smith will read from her new book, The Weeds, to be released April 18, 2023, from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Bring your mats for Yoga in the Welty Garden Tuesdays in May from 7–7:30 a.m. These free, adult classes are led by certified yoga instructor Alexia P. Hammonds.
At noon on Wednesday, May 31, Carolyn Brown will present “To Dance, To Live: A Biography of Thalia Mara” as part of the History Is Lunch series. The program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building and stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. Book sales and signing to follow.
At noon on Wednesday, May 24, Mike O’Brien will present “The Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-in” as part of the History Is Lunch series. The program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building and stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. Book sales and signing to follow.
At noon on Wednesday, May 17, Mike Bunn and Clay Williams will present “Mississippi from Old Southwest to Old South” as part of the History Is Lunch series. The program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building and stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. Book sales and signing to follow.
At noon on Wednesday, May 10, there will be a screening of The Defenders: How Lawyers Protected the Movement. Produced by Red Squared and MDAH, this award–winning documentary focuses on Mississippi lawyers who represented African Americans in the years leading up to and during the Civil Rights Movement. The program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
History Is Lunch is sponsored by the John and Lucy Shackelford Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation for Mississippi.
At noon on Wednesday, May 3, Davis Houck will present “A Lynching Post-Facto: Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press in 1955” as part of the History Is Lunch series. The program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building and stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. Book sales and signing to follow.
Tune in with Suzanne Marrs, Welty's friend and biographer, and Suzann Harrison, Eckerd College professor of rhetoric, for an online discussion of Virginia Woolf's novel, To the Lighthouse. For more information, visit welty.mdah.ms.gov/events, or call 601-353-7762.