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SUMMARY:Speakers Bureau: "Wanted--1\,000\,000 Frogs: Weird and Wonderful Things Found in Mississippi Newspapers"
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by speaker Tracy Carr: \nA monkey named Jocko who lived at the Great Southern Hotel in Gulfport\, the biggest cabbage in Coahoma County\, and lots and lots of crime: these are the stories found in Mississippi’s historical newspapers. Ranging from the late 1800s to midcentury\, these newspaper articles from across the state are given context (and some fact-checking) in this presentation. \nWhat can old news tell us about Mississippians of the past? We can learn what was important and interesting to them\, through both the “news” articles and the advertisements. We can learn what trends came and went and how attitudes changed. We can learn how easy it was to shape the public’s perception of events\, and what power someone writing and article for a newspaper had in the days before fact-checking and accountability. Learning what information people had about an event or person helps to inform why those people were the way they were. \nWhile some remain mysteries (including why the Mitchell brothers\, farmers from Jonestown\, were looking for a million frogs in an advertisement)\, the interesting and odd news items that made it into the papers are researched and explained. Topics discussed include embezzlements\, murders\, bootlegging\, accidental deaths in large dough mixers\, hookworms\, fish falling from the sky\, and a Holmes County psychic\, among others.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/speakers-bureau-wanted-1000000-frogs-weird-and-wonderful-things-found-in-mississippi-newspapers/
LOCATION:Embassy Suites by Hilton Jackson North Ridgeland\, 200 Township Ave\, Ridgeland\, MS\, 39157\, United States
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SUMMARY:Speakers Bureau: "No One Writes Songs about Polyester: Re-making Cotton’s Image in the Late Twentieth Century"
DESCRIPTION:James Giesen presents “No One Writes Songs about Polyester: Re-making Cotton’s Image in the Late Twentieth Century.” \nMississippi has long reigned as the capital of cotton country\, but by the mid-twentieth century\, the crop’s dominance faced a serious threat from synthetic upstarts like Polyester and Rayon. This talk opens in the storied lobby of Memphis’s Peabody Hotel\, where a Delta planter from Clarksdale tries to rally powerful cotton interests to rescue their struggling industry—not through farming innovation\, but by transforming how the world saw their product. Cotton had become the fabric of choice for hippies and civil rights activists\, while the country’s rich and famous embraced Polyester for its sheen and ease of care. To save their livelihood\, these cotton leaders launched Cotton\, Inc. and the “Fabric of Our Lives” campaign\, one of the most memorable advertising efforts in American history.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/speakers-bureau-no-one-writes-songs-about-polyester-re-making-cottons-image-in-the-late-twentieth-century/
LOCATION:Delta State University\, 1003 W Sunflower Rd\, Cleveland\, MS\, 38733\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writer in Residence Public Reading
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 10 \n7:30-8:30 Reading/Q&A in Old Main 1030 \n8:30 – 9pm Book Signing \nChigozie Obioma\, a Nigerian writer and the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia whose first two novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize\, will spend a week (April 8-12) at Mississippi State University as the Writer in Residence\, engaging with students and faculty as well as the wider community of the Golden Triangle area. He will give a reading of his work that is free and open to the public. \nThe centerpiece of his visit—the public reading—will take place on Thursday\, April 10 at 7:30 pm to allow working members of the community to attend. It will be free and open to the public and will be held in the Old Main academic building on Mississippi State’s campus\, which is on a bus line\, has parking\, and is handicap accessible\, ensuring that the reading will be approachable to a public audience. \nFor the public reading\, Obioma will read some of his writing. He is a gifted public speaker\, and he will engage the audience\, not only because his language is so vivid\, but because his focus on family dynamics and the unique struggles of Nigeria\, the country in which he grew up. All of these themes have a great potential to connect with a large audience. \nThrough this reading\, Obioma will prompt the audience to engage with their own histories and heritages so that they may more profoundly make sense of their lives and the human condition. \nThe public reading will end with a Q&A between Obioma and the audience\, and\, afterwards\, attendants can buy signed copies of his novels.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/writer-in-residence-public-reading/
LOCATION:Mississippi State University Campus\, Starkville\, MS
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