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.
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.
Campers will walk nature trails, play games like chunkey and archery, and create unique crafts to take home during Discovery Week Summer Camp at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians from 9 a.m. to noon on June 12–16 and June 19–23. Native American demonstrators will also provide special presentations.
The Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley Exhibit: Let the World See exhibit, developed by the Till family, Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley Institute, Emmett Till Interpretive Center, and The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, will open at the Two Mississippi Museums on Saturday, April 1, and run through Sunday, May 14, 2023. Click here for more information.
Join the Eudora Welty House & Garden for a reading and book signing with Ann Fisher-Wirth at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 20. Fisher-Wirth will read from her seventh book of poems, Paradise Is Jagged, released in February (Terrapin Books). Sales on site through Lemuria Books. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 601-353-7762, or email info@eudoraweltyhouse.com.
Join us for the Heirloom Plant Sale at the Eudora Welty House & Garden on Saturday, April 1, from 9 a.m. until plants sell out, or 1 p.m., whichever occurs first. Bring home plants divided from the Welty garden, plus specially grown old-fashioned plants from Eudora Welty's prose and era—many of which have become hard to find. This event, run by the Cereus Weeder garden volunteers, is the only annual fundraiser to directly benefit the Welty garden and is offered in partnership with the Eudora Welty Foundation.
Join us for the Archives Library Open House. This collaborative event is hosted by the Mississippi Department of Archives & History (MDAH), the Mississippi Library Commission (MLC), and the Mississippi State Law Library(MSLL). On Tuesday, April 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the MLC will provide tours, a STEM kit petting zoo, and goodie bags. On Wednesday, April 26, MDAH will offer two scheduled tours at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. of the Archives Library at the William F. Winter Archives & History Building. On Thursday, April 27, MSLL will be open from 10 a.m.
At noon on Wednesday, April 26, Devery Anderson will present “The Story of Clyde Kennard” 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.