On June 5, the Museum of the Mississippi Delta will host a free and open to the public discussion of the book Trials of the Earth. The discussion will take place in conjunction with the Smithsonian traveling exhibition Crossroads: Change in Rural America, on display in Greenwood through June 26.
Trials of the Earth is the astonishing first-person account of Mary Mann Hamilton, a Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta. Discussion will center on the themes of Crossroads. This event is being held in collaboration with Turnrow Books, which will have copies of the book available for purchase at the event.
Crossroads: Change in Rural America offers small towns a chance to look at their own paths to highlight the changes that affected their fortunes over the past century. The exhibition will prompt discussions about what happened when America’s rural population became a minority of the country’s population and the ripple effects that occurred.
The exhibit will be on display at the Museum of the Mississippi Delta through June 26 and is open to the public Tuesdays-Saturdays 10am-3pm. Crossroads is free to visit.
Upcoming Crossroads events in Greenwood:
June 12, 10am: “Rural Roots: What Did I Learn?” presentation, Rev. Herron Wilson and Gene Dattel
June 17, 6pm: A Place Like Mississippi reading and signing, Ralph Eubanks
June 24, 6pm: Trials of the Earth reading and signing, Kerry Hamilton
Upcoming “Crossroads Children” events:
My Growing Delta workshop (rising 7th grade)
June 10, 8:45am
June 11, 12:45pm
My Musical Delta workshop (rising 5K-rising 2nd grades)
June 15, 10:30am
June 22, 10:30am
