The 2025 Annual Dinner of the Natchez Historical Society is Jan. 28

Reservation and payment deadline is January 14.

Matthew Skic, left, will be the featured speaker at the 2025 Annual Dinner of the Natchez Historical Society. Lance S. Harris will be presented the 2025 Historic Preservation Award. (Click on image to enlarge.)

NATCHEZ, Miss. -- The Natchez Historical Society will hold its 2025 annual dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, at the Natchez Grand Hotel, 111 N. Broadway St. Reservation and payment deadline is January 14. Payment will not be accepted at the door. Social hour with cash bar will begin at 5:30 p.m.

This program is part of a lecture series that is funded by a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council through funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Matthew Skic, curator of exhibitions at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will be the featured speaker. His topic is, “Muskets Along the Mississippi: The Revolutionary War in the West.”

During the dinner, society officials will present Lance S. Harris, sites operation administrator for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, with the 2025 Historic Preservation Award.

Reservation and payment may be made online at natchezhistoricalsociety.org or by mail at Natchez Historical Society, P. O. Box 49, Natchez, Miss. 39121. Please include names and phone numbers with checks.

Dinner is $39 per person (regular and vegetarian options available). Membership dues for 2025 also may be included: $20 per person or $35 per couple. For more information, call 281-731-4433 or 601-492-3004.

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