These are filming dates, this listing will be updated with presentation dates when available.
The Behind the Big House program in Holly Springs, Mississippi interprets the lives of enslaved persons through the structures in which they lived and worked. The program began in 2012 after Chelius Carter and Jenifer Eggleston, antebellum historic property owners, discovered that one of the structures on their property was a former slave dwelling. To them, it was clear that the personal lives and experiences of those enslaved in Holly Springs was missing from the larger narratives of the city’s Annual Pilgrimage Tour of Historic Homes and Churches. Since 1938, this tour has been an annual event allowing visitors to tour historic homes, cemeteries, churches, and museums in Holly Springs. To help remedy the exclusion, Carter and Eggleston, along with other community persons, started Behind the Big House. It is run through Preserve Marshall County and Holly Springs, Inc., a local historic preservation institution. The program’s major components are preservation, interpretation, and education.
