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Oak Square, Pori Gibson
Highlights: 1800s Spring Festival at Oak Square with more than 200 costumed participants recreating a weekend of living history with music, dancing, lawn games, maypole dance, and other attractions including artists, craftsmen, and
Civil War reenactors, dance performances from polkas to clogging, and a tribute to Major General Earl Van Dorn, C.S.A.
While There: Don’t miss the First Presbyterian Church with its famous hand-toward-heaven steeple in the town General Grant called "too beautiful to burn"; the haunting Ruins of Windsor; Grand Gulf Military Monument Park and Museum; the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station Visitors Center
Contact: Chamber of Commerce, Deborah Purviance, P.O. Box 491, Port Gibson, MS 39150, 437-4351
Vicksburg
When: March 20-April 4
Time: Morning tour 9 a.m.-12 noon; afternoon tour 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Tour: 12 homes
Price: $12 per 3-house tour, half-price for students under age 12 Headquarters: Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau, U.S. I-20, Exit 4-B
Highlights: "Vanishing Glory," widescreen dramatization of Vicksburg’s seige
While There: Visit Vicksburg National Military Park, its Visitor Center and Cairo Museum; Old Court House Museum; the Waterways Experiment Station; the Biedenharn Candy Company Museum; Toys and Soldiers Museum; the Corner Drug Store; Yesterday’s Children Antique Doll Museum and the Champion Hill National Historic Site near Edwards
Contact: Vicksburg Pilgrimage, c/o Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau, P.O. Box 110, Vicksburg, MS 39181, 636-9421 or 1-800-221-3536
Duff Green, Vicksburg
Yazoo City
The Hollies, Yazoo City
When: March 27-28
Time: 10 a.m.-12 noon and 2 p.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. Sunday
Tour: 2 tours; #1 on Saturday has 3 homes, and the recently restored courthouse and Bethel A.M.E. Church open 12 noon -2 p.m.; #2 has two homes, First United Methodist Church Price: $10 per tour, $16 for both; $5 to tour single structure Headquarters: Triangle Cultural Center on the historic Triangle downtown	*
Highlights: Garden Fair at No Mistake Plantation Friday, $50 tickets include two seminars by nationally and locally renowned experts, bus ride, and lunch at plantation; $15 ticket package includes composting seminar, bus ride, and box lunch While There: Visit the Yazoo Historical Museum Contact: Discover Yazoo Tours/Spring Spectacular, P.O. Box 1011, Yazoo City, MS 39194, 746-2088
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