Margaret’s Grocery, Vicksburg’s folk-art “Bible castle” on North Washington Street, will be honored at the State Capitol Tuesday as part of the Mississippi Arts Commission’s Advocacy Day.

Gov. Haley Barbour issued a proclamation Feb. 10 naming the week of March 20 to 26 “Rev. Herman D. Dennis and Margaret’s Grocery Awareness and Preservation Week.” Dennis, who is expected to attend, will be 96 on March 25.

To honor his wife, the late Margaret Rogers Dennis who was the store’s original owner, Dennis decorated the old grocery in the 1980s and 1990s as a “Bible castle to God.”