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A PUBLICATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
Winter 2011
Justice Graves To Deliver Statehood Address Dec. 9
Federal judge James E. Graves, Jr., will be the speaker for the third annual Statehood Day celebration at the Old Capitol Museum.
The program, to be held at noon on Friday, December 9, in the House of Representatives Chamber, commemorates Mississippi’s entrance into the Union. A reception will follow.
“We are honored to have Judge Graves deliver the 2011 Statehood Day address,” said MDAH director
H.T. Holmes. “Judge Graves’s lifelong commitment to law and education exemplifies the Old Capitol Museum’s mission to examine the state’s evolving government and political history over the past 194 years and to encourage an active citizenry to continue to reach to the future.”
Graves sits on the Fifth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. In 2001 he was appointed to the Mississippi Supreme Court and served as presiding justice from 2009 to 2011. Graves was Hinds County Circuit Court judge from 1991 to 2001. In addition to his work in the courtroom, Graves has taught media law, civil rights law, and sociology of law at Jackson State University, Millsaps College, and Tougaloo College. Graves has also coached high school, college, and law school mock trial teams, including the Jackson Mur-C0NTINUED ON PAGE 2
Volume 53, No. 4
Holiday Happenings at MDAH Sites Statewide
Make the most of the holiday season with live seasonal music, Christmas tree displays, model trains, and other free, fun, family programming at the historic sites and museums of the Department of Archives and History.
On Friday, December 2, the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion, state capitol, Old Capitol Museum, and William F. Winter Archives and History Building will be decorated for the sixteenth annual Old Jackson Christmas by Candlelight Tour. Free transportation will take visitors from site to site, with parking available at the Old Capitol, state capitol, and Winter Building for those who prefer to drive their own vehicles. The Candlelight Tour begins at 4:30 p.m. and runs until 8:30.
The Old Capitol, Jackson’s oldest building, will be decked 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. Enjoy cookies and punch while listening to musical groups from across the city. Performing will be the Jim Hill High School choir at 4:45, the Mississippi Boychoir at 5:30, the Mississippi Girlchoir at 6:15, Galloway Concordia Ensemble at 7, and the Hinds Community College Brass Ensemble at 7:45.
The grand Mississippi State Capitol will be decorated with seven Mississippi-grown Leyland cypress Christmas trees, garlands, and poinsettias. The schedule of musical entertainment for the Candlelight Tour at the capitol will be Voices of Madison Avenue, Madison Avenue Upper Elementary at 4:45; Vision United Ministries Mass
Choir at 5:30; Mustard Seed Bells of Faith at 6:15; Christmas Jazz at Sunset featuring Dan Colbert and Bob Davidson at 7; and the Port Gibson High School Choir at 7:45.
This year’s holiday theme at the circa-1841 Mississippi Governor’s Mansion will recall the Mississippi Delta with wreaths on the windows and doors, indoor seasonal greenery, and an elegant Christmas tree in the Front Rose Parlor. Visitors will also enjoy live piano music and holiday-themed snacks.
Joining the displays of Antebellum, Victorian, and Depression-era Christmas scenes in the William F. Winter Archives and History Building this year is a case representing the 1950s and ’60s with an aluminum CONTINUED ON PAGE 2