Chillin’, fiddlin’ and marchin’ in city
Published 12:00 am Sunday, January 18, 2009
Saturday was jam-packed with events in Vicksburg. Above, Mississippi Track Club President Jack Ward rattles off instructions to runners and walkers in the YMCA’s Chill in the Hills downtown run. (Results in Section C.) At right, Doug Bing of West Virginia teaches fiddling during the second and last day of the Mississippi Old Time Music Society workshop at the Old Courthouse Museum. Below, Tracy Harden of Vicksburg cheers on the Vicksburg High School Pride band during the Martin Luther King Jr. parade on Washington Street. Observances of King’s birthday will continue Monday with the annual scholarship breakfast at 8:30 a.m. at the Vicksburg Convention Center with Alcorn State University President George Ross speaking. Tickets are $20 and available by calling Lewis H. Burke at 601-631-3948, Dr. John Walls at 601-634-6349 or Ben Brown at 601-638-9047. On Monday night at 6, the Rev. Dr. Archie R. Smith, pastor of St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Madison, will be the guest speaker for the 23rd annual commemoration ceremony at Vicksburg Municipal Auditorium. Admission is free. (Katie Carter*The Vicksburg Post)