From angels to ghosts: Weekend filled with events

Published 12:00 am Saturday, October 28, 2000

Miss-Lou residents will have no end of things to do this weekend. Everything from music, ghostly stories from the past, charitable events with Make A Difference Day and a costume party will usher in the Halloween season.

The Natchez City Cemetery is hosting a new fundraiser, &uot;Angels on the Bluff,&uot; this weekend featuring reenactments of the lives of some of the people buried in the cemetery.

Cemetery Director Don Estes said the tour will include music and 10 reenactments, some performed by actual descendants of the deceased.

Email newsletter signup

But the event is not meant to frighten the guests.

&uot;This is meant to be respectful to the people we are reenacting,&uot; Estes said.

More than 1,000 people have already purchased tickets, Estes said.

Tours will take place every 15 minutes from 6:30 to 9:15 p.m. Saturday and from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets can be purchased at the Natchez&160;Visitor’s Center, on South Canal Street and cost $10 for adults and $5 for people 18 years old and younger.

A shuttle will transport guests from the visitor’s center to the Natchez City Cemetery on Cemetery Road.

All proceeds are donated to the Friends of the Cemetery for improvements to its grounds.

Also this weekend, the Relay for Life will host a Halloween Bash from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Saturday at the Ramada Inn Hilltop.

Tickets to the party cost $20 each and benefit the American Cancer Society.

Janice Holder, dance chairman, said the proceeds will go to the Relay For Life’s annual spring fundraiser to raise money for the cancer society.

&uot;This is our first time to try a dance, so we’re hoping for a good response,&uot; she said.

For people in the mood for a musical performance, the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, on 400 Jefferson Davis Boulevard will host its annual fall program, Music at the Mounds from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday

The free event will feature several performers, including gospel, country and jazz music with food provided by the Natchez Shriner’s Club.

&uot;We hope that people will come out and enjoy a nice fall afternoon and some good music,&uot; said Jim Barnett, museum director.

And Saturday in the Miss-Lou will also be busy with numerous events in honor of Make a Difference Day.

Some of these activities, include a Rally Against Racism at 1 p.m., at the Main Street Market Place, Ruritan Club activities and school and church projects.

The Natchez-Adams County Learn and Serve Partnership is hosting KidCare 2000 from 9 a.m. to noon at the old Natchez Convention Center, next to Natchez High School.

The program will provide free photo identification kits complete with fingerprints for up to 700 children to aid law enforcement agencies if the children are ever missing.