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Mystery Theater at Old Capitol
The Old Capitol is many things to many people: Mississippi’s most historic space, an architectural gem, and one of the state’s premier history museums. But after hours on January 23,2014, the building will transform into a crime scene—complete with an outrageous heist, red herrings, and screwball fun—with Mystery Happened Here: An Evening of Intrigue at the Old Capitol.
The event will feature an open bar and heavy hors d’oeuvres, the opportunity to view one-night-only “artifacts,” and a program by our dinner theater performers, The Detectives. Tickets are $40 apiece at 601-576-6920 or by email at info@oldcapitolmuseum.com.
Native American Days
Members of the Southern Pines Drum Group from Choctaw, Mississippi, participated in this year’s Native American Days festival at Winterville Mounds, which drew more than 2,000 people.
Conference Examines Civil Rights Movement
The Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration will mark a quarter century of arts programming with its 2014 conference 60 Years and Counting: Voices of the Civil Rights Movement. The theme will be explored in lectures, films, concerts, and tours February 20-23 at the Natchez Convention Center and other local sites.
“The conference will take place sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education made segregation in public schools unconstitutional and fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibited discrimination in public places,” said NLCC founder and co-chairman Carolyn Vance Smith. “These decisions caused sweeping changes that continue to permeate our country’s daily life.”
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum project director Jacqueline Dace will present “The Development of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum: The Story Will Be Told” on Thursday, February
20,	at 7 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Natchez.
University of Mississippi professor emeritus David G. Sansing will deliver the keynote address “Fulfilling the Dream” at 9 a.m. on Friday, February 21. Lectures, film screenings, and tours will follow.
Other presentations include:
•	“Duncan M. Gray Jr. at Ole Miss, 1962,” by Araminta Stone Johnston, author of “And One Was a Priest": The Life and Times of Duncan M. Gray Jr., with remarks by Duncan M. Gray Jr., retired Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Mississippi, and Duncan M.
Gray III, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Mississippi
•	“The Importance of the Humanities,” by United States Senator Thad Cochran
•	“Southern Literature: A Powerful Force,” by Clifton Taulbert, author of The Invitation
•	Why Not Let the Past Rest?: The Necessity of Confronting the Darkest Chapters of America's Past, by Stanley Nelson, Jerry Mitchell, and Greg lies
•	“The Help-Fact, Fiction and Appeal” by Gene Dattel, author of Cotton and Race in the Making of America
•	"The Storied South and the Civil Rights Movement,” by William Ferris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
•	“Nothing Beats a Made-Up Mind: How Optimism and Education Changed My Life,” by David L. Jordan, author of
From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate: The Journey of David L. Jordan
•	“Overcoming: The Role of Tougaloo College during the Civil Rights Movement,” by Ed King, former chaplain at Tougaloo College
Information and tickets are available at 866-296-6522 or 601-446-1289. A complete program listing can be found online at www.colin.edu/nlcc.
The Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration is sponsored by Copiah-Lincoln Community College, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the Natchez National Historical Park, the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Adams County Board of Supervisors, and the City of Natchez, and is made possible through a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant.