Events

Join us for Live Jazz in the Welty Garden at 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 19, at the Eudora Welty House & Garden. This event will feature free, live music from the Mississippi College Jazz Band in the beautiful garden that inspired many of Welty's Pulitzer Prize-winning stories. The grounds open at 5 p.m., and music starts at 5:30 p.m. Blankets and lawn chairs are encouraged. Games and a children’s station will be set up in the yard. Free lemonade and popcorn will be available. Additionally, guests can purchase food and drinks from Urban Foxes.

Admission to the Two Mississippi Museums is free every Sunday. This includes admission to the Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers, Photographs by Melody Golding on display through November 7. HORNE, a Ridgeland-based professional services firm, is the title sponsor of the exhibit.

Readers are invited to tune in with Suzanne Marrs, Eudora Welty's friend and biographer, and for an online discussion of works inspired by Medgar Evers. This series will continue weekly discussions on Mondays, September 18, 25, and October 2, 9, 16, and 23. For more information, visit https://welty.mdah.ms.gov/events, or email info@eudoraweltyhouse.com. 

Join us at noon on Sunday, September 17, for Community Solidarity Day at the Two Mississippi Museums. Inspired by the mission of the Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City of 1968, Community Solidarity Day features an afternoon of health screenings by the Hinds County Comprehensive Health Center, a cooking demonstration by Nick Wallace, a yoga class, and other activities that coincide with our traveling exhibit, Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People's Campaign. For more information, contact 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.

In celebration of civil rights veteran Hezekiah Watkins' birthday, the Two Mississippi Museums will host a free admission day on Friday, September 1. Visitors are invited to listen to Watkins' story of being a Freedom Rider at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the This Little Light of Mine gallery, purchase a signed copy of his book Pushing Forward, and enjoy a cupcake in honor of his birthday. For more information, contact 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.

At noon on Wednesday, September 6, Jim Woodrick will present “Raiding on the M&O Railroad: Grierson's 1864–65 Expedition"” 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 and stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. Book sales and signing to follow.