Catfish Row Museum

Documenting Delta Wok
2022-05-07 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Catfish Row Museum, 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, 39180, United States
A collaborative documentary project on Mississippi Delta Chinese with Talbot Easton Selby, associate dean in the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Coastal Carolina University and professor of photography; Emily Jones, Delta State University archivist; and Gabriella Sang

Home Town Recipes: Race, Myth, and Cookbooks in 20th Century Vicksburg
2022-04-23 14:00 - 15:00
Dr. Andrew Haley, Moorman Distinguished Professor in the Humanities 2019-21 and Associate Professor of American Cultural History from the University of Southern Mississippi
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Mississippi's Black Farming Legacy
2022-04-02 14:00 - 15:00
W. Ralph Eubanks, writer and essayist whose work focuses on race, identity, and the culture of the American South and Mississippi

Southern Jewish Food Cultures
2022-03-26 14:00 - 15:00
A Conversation with Marcie Cohen Ferris, Professor Emeritus and Foodways author from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Lesley Silver, owner of the Attic Gallery

Picturing Women Inventors Exhibition
2022-03-18 10:00 - 2022-04-16 15:00
View the Smithsonian poster exhibition highlighting the history of women inventors in the United States for free through April 16 at the Catfish Row Museum.

Picturing Women Inventors is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in collaboration with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and is sponsored by Lyda Hill Philanthropies IF/THEN Initiative and Ericsson.

Visit us at 913 Washington Street in Vicksburg Tuesday through Saturday, 10 AM – 3 PM.

Learning from Local Foods
2022-03-05 14:00 - 15:00
Mary Beth Lasseter, interim co-director of Southern Foodways Alliance, on storytelling and food and the creation of the Vicksburg Farmers’ Market

Margaret Walker: Food, Fellowship, and Forms of Activism
2022-02-26 14:00 - 15:00
Robert Luckett, civil rights historian and director of a special collections archive with the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University
