Featuring selections from Thad Lee’s year-long documentary photography project, Unvanquished Soil: A Year at Greenfield Farm explores the legacy of William Faulkner's mule farm. A place once shaped by work, community, and the families who called it home, now reclaimed by nature, Greenfield will soon reemerge as the home of Greenfield Farm Writers Residency. Presented […]
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3 events,The Chamber of Commerce in Magee along with all interested clubs, organizations, churches, businesses and individuals will be collecting 250 items to donate to the Veterans Home to show appreciation for their part in our rich history. SUMMER EXHIBIT Open May 15 – August 15 Story to Stage is open this summer at the Mississippi Children’s Museum – Meridian! Designed to inspire young learners through storytelling, history, and interactive exploration, the exhibit celebrates America’s 250th birthday while engaging children and families in meaningful, hands-on learning experiences. Discover the American themes of bravery, freedom, home, […] |
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This year's Star Spangled Celebration on the River is going to be bigger, more meaningful, and more patriotic than ever as we celebrate America's 250th! We are excited to officially launch this year's celebration at Petal River Park and Chain Park alongside our incredible partners. This year also introduces our new Red, White, Blue and […] |
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BIG NEWS- 4th of July Weekend CelebrationThe Taylorsville Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce our AMERICA 250 – 4th of July Weekend Celebration as we celebrate not only America’s 250th birthday… but also Taylorsville’s 125th Anniversary. This is going to be more than fireworks and festivities.This weekend is about history, hometown pride, community, music, memories, […]
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Stars, Stripes and Seafood: Honoring Biloxi’s Seafood Founding Fathers An America250 Celebration, July 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum, 115 1st St. Enjoy re-enactments from “The Five Founding Fathers of the Seafood Industry.” Refreshments served. Free admission. Details: 228-435-6254 |
11 events,Spark! Places of Innovation exhibit in Meridian Join MHC in Meridian for the Spark! Places of Innovation tour of Mississippi! July 4-August15, 2026 Soule Steam Museum 601-693-9905 | industrialheritagemuseum.com Exhibit hours: Across 2026-2027, the Mississippi Humanities Council presents Spark! Places of Innovation, a Smithsonian traveling exhibit touring Utica, Meridian, Greenville, Oxford, Hattiesburg, and Gulfport. Special […]
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PONTOTOC’S FOURTH OF JULY BIRTHDAY BASH Help us celebrate America’s 250th birthday! This is the list of events for the 2026 4th of July holiday! Mark your calendars and plan to attend this amazing event!
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Join us Saturday, July 4th for the Lena 4th of July! Beginning at 11:00 on July 4th with a Classic Car show featuring the Carthage Cruisers along with cars from other groups across Mississippi. They will be cruising into the center of town and setting up for display. The fire department will open with activities […]
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Celebrate America’s 250th at The MAX with a free performance by Rising Stars Fife and Drum Band. Led by “Fife Master” Shardé Thomas, granddaughter of the legendary Othar Turner, and percussionist Chris Mallory, their performance will honor freedom in all its forms: our nation’s independence, the emancipation of a people, and the creative spirit that […] |
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We are planning a party! Thank you to the Mississippi250 Grant Committee with the Mississippi Humanities Council for our matching grant to provide an America250 Birthday Party for you at your Lawrence County Civic Center! It is an exciting time for our country and for us!Our building will be celebrating its 100th Birthday, so we […] |
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William Arinder presents “Pioneer Toys, Games, and Music” on July 9, 2026, at 10 a.m. A living history program about the early pioneer settlers in Mississippi. Discussion centers around how they dressed, built their homes, produced and cooked their food, created children’s homemade toys, and made music on the mountain dulcimer. Period clothing worn, hands-on artifacts […] |
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This is the third in the series of luncheon lectures coming to the MS Ag & Forestry Museum. The highlight of this lecture will be Mound Bayou Museum & African American History & Culture. In the Heritage Center Auditorium, July 10th from Noon - 1PM. Rev. Darryl Johnson & Hermon Johnson, present a program about […] |
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On July 11, 2026, Foxfire Ranch invites our kinfolk, and community to a neighborhood reunion from 10 AM to 6PM celebrating over 250 years of Black land stewardship, story, and song. Rooted in the living traditions from our nook of the North Mississippi Hill Country— the day weaves together remembrance, planting ceremonies, community quilting, podcast […] |
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Be Part of History! Help Us Fill a Time Capsule! Our library is starting a fun new project called "Voices of Mid-Mississippi: A Community Time Capsule!" We want to save our thoughts and memories from today for people to open in the future—50 years from now, during the America 300 birthday celebration! What is a […] |
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Dr. Rebecca Tuuri’s presentation examines the first fifty years of the women’s suffrage in Mississippi, with a focus on the work of the Mississippi League of Women Voters (LWV) from the months before the ratification of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment through the late 1960s when the state’s League was transformed into the progressive and […] |
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Happy Birthday, America is an original musical celebrating the 250th birthday of America, and Mississippi's part in forming our country. Performed by a cast of kids and adults of all ages, audiences will be delighted at this sometimes funny, sometimes not, presentation. Told through story and music, we guarantee you'll be tapping your feet and […] |
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Happy Birthday, America is an original musical celebrating the 250th birthday of America, and Mississippi's part in forming our country. Performed by a cast of kids and adults of all ages, audiences will be delighted at this sometimes funny, sometimes not, presentation. Told through story and music, we guarantee you'll be tapping your feet and […]
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Happy Birthday, America is an original musical celebrating the 250th birthday of America, and Mississippi's part in forming our country. Performed by a cast of kids and adults of all ages, audiences will be delighted at this sometimes funny, sometimes not, presentation. Told through story and music, we guarantee you'll be tapping your feet and […] |
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Join us for a free event featuring a screening of Everlasting: Life and Legacy of Medgar Evers at 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium at the Two Mississippi Museums. A 60-minute showing of this two hour documentary features interviews with Evers’s family, colleagues, and historians honoring the life, work, and impact […]
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Happy Birthday, America is an original musical celebrating the 250th birthday of America, and Mississippi's part in forming our country. Performed by a cast of kids and adults of all ages, audiences will be delighted at this sometimes funny, sometimes not, presentation. Told through story and music, we guarantee you'll be tapping your feet and […]
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This production of Central MS Blues Society, Inc. will bring three blues artists, all Mississippi women who are known to blues lovers worldwide, will share their music and stories of their struggles and successes as African American blues women in America. The music will be accompanied by a Jackson area blues band. Free and open […] |
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