NATCHEZ ANTIQUES FORUM
Call 601.445.7479
Schedule of Events
Thursday, NOVEMBER 7
Definite plans to be announced soon. Schedules are being
finalized for an opening bus tour, to take place in
Woodville, Mississippi. Rosemont, the boyhood home of
Jefferson Davis and other historic structures, will be on tour.
An open house at Elgin Plantation and a special event at the
Briars, the setting for the marriage of
Davis and Variana Howell are also included.
Please stay tuned for details
Friday, NOVEMBER 8 and Saturday, NOVEMBER 9
SPEAKERS AND TOPICS INCLUDE:
DANIEL BROOKS-
DIRECTOR ARLINGTON HISTORIC HOUSE, ret.
"Memories from the Home Front"
JEFFERSON MANSELL-
HISTORIAN, NATCHEZ NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK
"Now Occupied for the Public Use: Yankees in the Great Houses
of Natchez 1863-1865"
ELIZABETH M. BOGGESS, Ph.D.-
HISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGIST AND SOCIAL HISTORIAN
"The Clifton Story: An American Art Collection under Occupation"
ESTILL CURTIS PENNINGTON-
Art Historian
"Lost and Lonesome: Relics of The Lost Cause"
ULYSSES DIETZ-
Senior Curator Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey
"Lighting the North and the South: The Dietz Company"
DEAN KNIGHT-
Supervisor of Operations The White House of the Confederacy
"The White House of the Confederacy: Jefferson Davis'
Executive Mansion"
BERTRAM HAYES-DAVIS
Executive Director, Beauvoir
"Mrs. Dorsey's Beauvoir: Home of Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Davis"
