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| Mayor Dan M. Gibson (Click on image to enlarge.) |
NATCHEZ, Ms. — This year’s Miss-Lou Memorial Day Parade,
set for Monday, May 25, will include an unveiling ceremony for a Mississippi
state historical marker commemorating the parade, according to Laura Jackson,
chair of the Natchez parade committee, and Sheila Trust Gardner, chair of the
Vidalia parade committee.
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| Sgt. Anita R. Washington Jackson (Click on image to enlarge.) |
Sgt. Anita R. Washington Jackson will serve as the
Vidalia grand marshal, and Mayor Dan M. Gibson will serve as the Natchez grand
marshal.
The unveiling ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m. at 639
S. Canal St., in front of the Holiday Inn Express. The program will feature
presentations by Roscoe Barnes III, cultural heritage tourism manager for Visit
Natchez; Mayor Dan M. Gibson; Robert Gardner, Vidalia alderman for District 2;
and Annette Sharp, general manager of the Holiday Inn Express.
The unveiling will be followed by an 11 a.m. ceremony at
Natchez National Cemetery. The guest speaker will be Glenn R. Powers, deputy
under secretary for Field Programs and Cemetery Operations at the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
Lineup for the parade will begin at 7:30 a.m. at Zion
Baptist Church, located at 601 Magnolia St. in Vidalia. From there, the
procession will travel to the foot of the Louisiana side of the bridge, cross
into Natchez, and continue to the Natchez Visitor Center at 640 S. Canal St.
Shuttle service will be available at the Visitor Center and the cemetery.
From the Visitor Center, participants will proceed north
on Canal Street to Franklin Street, continue to Pearl Street, then travel from
Pearl to Oak Street before proceeding to Maple Street and continuing north to
Cemetery Road.
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