Museum on Main Street is bringing a traveling Smithsonian Exhibition – New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music – to Mississippi for a second tour beginning in April 2011 through January 2012. The tour will visit six communities around Mississippi.

(Jackson) – Governor Haley Barbour appointed Natasha Trethewey as Mississippi’s Poet Laureate. She will be responsible for promoting the literary arts in Mississippi through readings of her work at meetings, seminars and conferences across the state.

The Mississippi Humanities Council Public Humanities Awards, which recognize outstanding contributions by Mississippians to the study and understanding of the humanities, will be presented Friday evening, February 24, 2012, at the Hilton Hotel in Jackson.

The Mississippi Humanities Council is delighted to announce recipients for its 2012 Public Humanities Awards, which recognize outstanding contributions by Mississippians to the study and understanding of the humanities. These recipients will be honored at a public ceremony and banquet Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, at the Hilton Hotel in Jackson.