May 03, 2012
Free Jazz Concert on Natchez Bluff
Join New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park Rangers Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and Matt Hampsey at the Natchez Bluff Gazebo on Broadway Street on Monday, May 7th at 7:00 p.m. for a FREE performance of songs from the recently released CD project “Songs of the Lower Mississippi Delta”.
April 19, 2012
NATC Celebrates National Park Week
Natchez National Historical Park Celebrates National Park Week, April 21-29th, with free programming at Melrose and the William Johnson House.
March 23, 2012
Zachary Taylor at Melrose
Visitors to the Melrose mansion now have a chance to see a Natchez classic, a life-size, marble bust of Zachary Taylor completed in 1848 by Natchez sculptor Edwin Lyon.
March 17, 2012
Julia Davis Portrait Returns To Melrose
A special homecoming happened in Natchez last week as the childhood portrait of Julia Davis made her way back to the Melrose parlor for the first time since its departure 30 years ago. Painted sometime in the1850s, the oil painting was attributed to German born artist William Frye in the book Mississippi Portraiture.
