VAA meeting set for Tuesday

Published 12:00 am Sunday, October 11, 2009

The Vicksburg Art Association’s monthly meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Constitution Firehouse at Main and Openwood streets.

The meeting will feature a presentation by Jackson artist and instructor Bebe Wolfe.

For more information, call 601-638-9221 or e-mail lesliehorton@hotmail.com.

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Recipes, kids’ stories on bookstore calendar

Six authors are scheduled for appearances in November and December at Lorelei Books.

All book-signings, except one, will be at the store at 1103 Washington St. Bill Ferris will sign “Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues” at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center at 4 p.m. Dec. 14.

For information, call 601-634-8624 or visit www.loreleibooks.com.

• 4 p.m. Nov. 16 — Hester Bass will sign “The Secret World of Walter Anderson,” a children’s picture book that portrays Anderson’s journeys along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

• 1 p.m. Dec. 4 — Richelle Putnam and Virginia Dawkins will sign “A Cup of Comfort Christmas Prayer: Prayers and Stories That Bring You Closer to God During the Holiday.”

Both authors will hold a writers workshop from 10 a.m. to noon at the bookstore. Cost is $25 per person ,and registration will be at the store.

• 11 a.m. Dec. 8 — Mississippi chef and author Robert St. John will sign “Dispatches from My South: Reflections and Recipes From a Southern Food Scribe,” featuring his top 40 recipes and 20 new ones.

• 2 p.m. Dec. 13 — Silas House will sign “Eli the Good,” a novel set in a small Southern town in the summer of 1976.

Alcorn tells plans for Still exhibit

Alcorn State University is the final host of the one-year traveling exhibit “William Grant Still: Inspired to Inspiring.”

The exhibit, sponsored by the Mississippi Arts Commission, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Mississippi Humanities Council and the Mississippi Library Commission, will be displayed in the J.D. Boyd Library on campus through Oct. 30.

It features eight free-standing fabric panels of the life and works of Woodville native Still, a composer, who died in 1978. He wrote more than 150 compositions. The exhibit will end with a Nov. 18 conference hosted by Still’s daughter, Judith Anne, in Natchez.

Admission is free. For more information, call 601-877-6350.

Founding members of jazz band to play

Founding members of The University of Southern Mississippi’s Jazz Sextet will host a reunion performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Mannoni Performing Arts Center on campus.

The original sextet was started in 1999 by students in the jazz combo program, and they are Tom Luer, saxophone; Alexander Pershounin, bass; Art Ruangtip, trombone; David Rodriguez, trumpet; Tina Catalanotto, drums and Darrell Harvard, guitar.

The concert is free.

Fore more information, call 601-266-6121 or visit www.usm.edu/arts.

Photo conservation subject of lecture

Historic Jefferson College will offer a lunchtime lecture, Conserving Family Photographs, Oct. 20 in Raymond Hall.

Jeff Rogers, a graphic records curator with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, will lead the lecture.

He is responsible for the care and conservation of more than 100,000  photographs, negatives, glass plates, lantern slides and 35 mm slides.

The free program will start at noon, and participants are encouraged to bring lunch. For information, call 601-442-2901 or e-mail rperson@mdah.state.ms.us.

Historic Jefferson College is located off U.S. 61 in Washington, four miles north of Natchez. It is a branch of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.