At right, A runner takes a jog along the Natchez trails. At left, a normally busy weekend on Main Street in downtown Natchez is quiet. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

Silver Street at Natchez Under-the-Hill is pictured in this file photo. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

The closed Natchez Mall cinema offers an inspiring message on its marquee. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

The County Pie dining room is dark as Stratton Rymer delivers a pizza for curbside delivery at the Natchez restaurant. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

Trinity Episcopal Church rector the Rev. Ken Ritter offers his sermon to an empty church as the weekly mass is videotaped for boradcast on Sunday. Local churches are among the many large spaces in Natchez that have been left empty during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

A picture of two friends holding hands hangs in the now vacant first-grade classroom hallway at Vidalia Lower Elementary. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

A ball field at Duncan Park. (File photo / The Natchez Democrat)

The windows of the Natchez Grand Hotel are left dark and the parking lot empty during the COVID-19 outbreak. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

A Vidalia Lower Elementary first-grade classroom is left empty. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

(Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

(Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

(Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

(Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)