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A PUBLICATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
Winter 2014
Volume 57, No. 4
MDAH Celebrates the Holiday Season
On Friday, December 5, the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion, Old Capitol Museum, Eudora Welty House and Garden, Manship House Museum, and William F. Winter Building will be decked out in traditional holiday decorations for the nineteenth annual Old Jackson Christmas by Candlelight Tour. Free transportation will take visitors from site to site, with parking available at the Old Capitol and the Mississippi Fairgrounds at the Jefferson Street entrance. The tour begins at 4:30 and runs until 8:30.
The Old Capitol, Jackson’s oldest building, will be decorated with greenery in the style used in 1840 when local women prepared the building for a visit by Andrew Jackson. Garlands will hang around the rotunda railing on the second floor and the stairwells, and wreaths will decorate the exterior of the building. Old Capitol holiday ornaments and gift bags will be on sale at the Candlelight Marketplace. Enjoy bite-size pastries and confections provided by La Brioche Bakery from 6 to 7:30 p.m. while listening to musical groups from across the city. Performing will be Jim Hill High
School Choir, 4:40-5:10; the Mississippi Boychoir, 5:30-6; the Mississippi Girlchoir, 6:20-6:50; and East Rankin Choir, 7:10— 7:40. The Hinds Community College Brass
Ensemble will perform between the choir sets throughout the evening.
The circa-1842 Mississippi Governor’s Mansion will be decorated with seasonal greenery. The East Garden will be open, and a very special guest from the North Pole will greet visitors. Hot chocolate and gingerbread cookies prepared by mansion chef Matt Huffman will be served. Musical performances will include pianists Dan Michael Colbert at 4:30 p.m. and Jimmy Jarratt at 6:30 p.m.
Visitors to the Eudora Welty House and Garden will tour the first floor of Welty’s home, which will have on display holiday photographs and a selection of greeting cards with a British Isles theme from Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen, English writers
E.M. Forster, V.S. Pritchett, P.L. Travers, and more. Pumpkin bread and hot tea and cider will be served at the Visitors Center as the Celtic band Spirits of the House will perform jigs and reels along with a selection of holiday musical standards.
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Kellogg Awards Civil Rights Museum $2.3M
Grant Will Fund Statewide Public Programming
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History will receive $2.3 million from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to support programming through the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and fund a partnership between MDAH, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute, and the William
Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. The grant will make possible educational initiatives such as summer teacher training programs and school workshops, public programs in communities throughout the state, and the digitization of important historical documents from the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Collection at MDAH. The announcement was made October 14 in Jackson at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building.
“We thank the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation for this extraordinary investment in our state’s future and for connecting the collections of MDAH with the people of Mississippi,” said MDAH director H.T. Holmes. “And we are thrilled they made this grant in honor of Myrlie Evers and Governor William Winter, two leaders who have been instrumental in making the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum a reality.” The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History are under con-
struction in downtown Jackson and are scheduled to open in December 2017 as the centerpiece of the state’s bicentennial celebration
“I can’t wait for the day that the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opens its doors to people from Mississippi and throughout the country and the world,” said Myrlie Evers, speaking at the luncheon after learning of the endowment. Winter added that young people visiting the Civil
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