The Marion County Historical Society Museum will be closed all next week, Oct. 28 through Oct. 31, in preparation of the new exhibit honoring Marion County Vietnam Veterans.
The new exhibit will premiere on Friday evening, Nov. 1 at a reception being held at the museum.
Further details will be in the Oct. 31 edition of The Columbian-Progress.
In other news, the museum has been selected as one of six in Mississippi to host a new Smithsonian traveling exhibit in 2020.
“Crossroads: Change in Rural America” will be in the state 10 months, and each site will develop a local complementary exhibit and weekly programs in conjunction with Crossroads.
The host sites were selected earlier this month by a selection committee, which reviewed applications from institutions around the state.
In addition to the museum in downtown Columbia, Northwest Community College (Senatobia), the Museum of the Mississippi Delta (Greenwood), East Mississippi Community College (Scooba), the Jane Blain Brewer Memorial Library (Mount Olive) and the Waveland Ground Zero Hurricane Museum (Waveland) will be the other hosts for six-week periods from 2020 through 2021.
Crossroads, an exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street division, takes a broad look at the characteristics of rural America. It explores how an attraction to and interaction with the land formed the basis of rural America and how rural communities and small towns evolve. It also highlights how change has transformed rural America and how rural Americans are evolving for the future.
“‘Crossroads’ allows us to reflect on Mississippi’s history, present and future, and we are excited to explore what the future may hold for communities around our state,” Caroline Gillespie, Crossroads state coordinator, said.
