Events
June 15, 2023, 3:00 pm
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…
June 17, 2023, 2:00 pm
Released in 1916, The Crisis (about 60 minutes) will be shown at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 17. The Crisis is a silent film based on the novel by Winston Churchill that tells the story of the American Civil War and its struggle to end slavery. Jeff…
June 18, 2023, 11:00 am
Explore themes of emancipation and liberation in Mississippi history at the Juneteenth Celebration on Sunday, June 18, at the Two Mississippi Museums. Beginning at 11 a.m., this day of celebration will feature Juneteenth-themed tours at 2 p.m., a…
Admission to the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is free every Sunday. This includes admission to the temporary exhibit This Is Home: Medgar Evers, Mississippi, and the Movement. This exhibit will close on…
June 19, 2023, 12:00 pm
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…
June 19, 2023, 9:00 am
Campers ages seven to nine 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 19–23. Native…