After celebrating Juneteenth and our nation’s independence this year, it’s clear that freedom is unique to all of us. Is there any common ground on the meaning of the term? The MHC wants to know, so we are asking the question, “what does freedom mean to you?” in a three-part Ideas on Tap series, we […]
As part of a WZZQ documentary currently in production, Cue Burn Films, LLC has scheduled a free event where listeners and fans of the station can add their voices to the project. The WZZQ listener event is asking people to bring their WJDX-FM and WZZQ stories, photos, and memorabilia to be recorded. The event will […]
The Pascagoula High School Performing Arts Center will host Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, from August 23 until September 20. Voices and Votes is a traveling exhibit offered by the Museum on Main Street division of the Smithsonian Institution. It consists of six free-standing display units incorporating photographs, text, and numerous […]
The lecture will be on the Fulton Campus of ICC in the Fine Arts Center on Wednesday, August 31 at 6 pm.
As part of a week long program on the historical significance of blues music, presenters will travel to nine Washington County middle and high schools to introduce blues music, artists, and live music using various original and recreated instruments such as jugs, washboards in tin tubs.
Drop by the library between September 14th and October 22nd to participate in this comic book/graphic novel celebration. The Will Eisner and the History of the Graphic Novel exhibit will explore the format through art, literature, film and conversation. Comic books and graphic novels assemble words and art into a dual language unlike anything else […]
This presentation will highlight mansions, churches, college buildings, schools, courthouses and other historically significant structures which Mississippi has “lost” to war, fire, neglect and demolition. It will draw extensively from my two books, Lost Mansions of Mississippi and Lost Landmarks of Mississippi. The talk can be configured to emphasize certain geographic areas of the state (i.e. Natchez and […]
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Join us for Ideas On Tap: Addressing the Digital Divide on September 29, where we will discuss technological disparities in Mississippi. Panelists include Sally Doty (Broadband Expansion and Accessibility of Mississippi), Dr. Creston Burse (Mississippi Economic Council), and Tracy Carr (Mississippi Library Commission). They will explore the issues and challenges that have created a digital divide, and how their respective […]
This event will consist of a conversation between Tema Stauffer and Lauren Rhoades about Stauffer's project "Southern Fiction". The discussion will touch on the connection between the photographs and the literature, as well as interrogate the South's complex historical on social dynamics, as revealed in these images.
From traditional green historical markers to the Mississippi Blues Trail, Freedom Trail, Country Music Trail, and Mississippi Mound Trail, the state’s history is told along its roads. The speaker takes a fun romp through history that will interest anyone who likes fascinating trivia about the state.
