Photo gallery: Group prepares for new play, ‘The Lynch’s’
Published 12:10 am Thursday, April 5, 2018
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From left Shabilla Minor hugs Sydni Adams, 9, while Jeremy Houston portrays John Roy Lynch during their rehearsal Wednesday at Miss Lou Heritage Group and Tours on St. Catherine Street in Natchez. (Nicole Hester | The Natchez Democrat)
From left, Randy Minor (William Lynch), Sydni Adams, 9, (Alice Lynch), shabbily Minor (Catherine Lynch), and Jeremy Houston (John Roy Lynch), read through their lines during their rehearsal Wednesday at Miss Lou Heritage Group and Tours on St. Catherine Street in Natchez. (Nicole Hester | The Natchez Democrat)
From left, Randy Minor (William Lynch), reads through his lines during their rehearsal Wednesday at Miss Lou Heritage Group and Tours on St. Catherine Street in Natchez. (Nicole Hester | The Natchez Democrat)
From left, Jeremy Houston, (John Roy Lynch), Sydni Adams, 9, Randy Minor (William Lynch), Shabilla Minor, (Catherine Lynch) read through their lines during a rehearsal for Wednesday at Miss Lou Heritage Group and Tours on St. Catherine Street in Natchez. (Nicole Hester | The Natchez Democrat)
From left Shabilla Minor, Randy Minor, and Jeremy Houston read through their lines during a rehearsal for Wednesday at Miss Lou Heritage Group and Tours on St. Catherine Street in Natchez. (Nicole Hester | The Natchez Democrat)
Shabilla Minor reads through her lines during a rehearsal for Wednesday at Miss Lou Heritage Group and Tours on St. Catherine Street in Natchez. (Nicole Hester | The Natchez Democrat)
NATCHEZ — Miss Lou Heritage Group and Tours is preparing to launch “The Lynch’s” Friday and Saturday at 6 pm at Zion Chapel AME Church. “The Lynch’s: An American Family Saga,” performed by Jeremy Houston, Symari Adams, Sydni Adams, Symone Adams, Randy Minor, Shabilla Minor, Jarita Frazier-King, the play takes place in 1859, and tells the story of John Roy Lynch and his family. How they were sold to Dunleith Plantation and their lives being enslaved to eventually becoming one of Mississippi’s most prominent families. Along with this performance, Miss Lou Heritage Group has several other productions as part of Spring Pilgrimage such as, “Isabella and The Prince,” “Hiram and John” and “Narrative of a Natchez Slave.”