WOODVILLE, MS: With four successful shows under their belt, the museum folks in Woodville Mississippi are rolling out the carpet again this November to selected dealers from five southern states to display their wares at the Fifth Annual Woodville Antiques Show and Sale on US 61 mid-way between St. Francisville, Louisiana and Natchez, Mississippi.
This year they are moving to exciting new quarters at the Wilkinson County Park just four miles north of town on US Highway 61 North. Their new quarters will allow visitors to enjoy the lake and the walks at the scenic park, and to dine at the popular café which will have an outdoor bar-b-que menu, and shop in the two spacious new exhibit buildings at the park.
It will be a three day show open from 10 to 5 on both Friday and Saturday the 18th and 19th of November and from 11 to 4:30 on Sunday, the 20th. The $5.00 per person admission is good for all three days.
Visitors will marvel and shop with vendors offering a range of furnishings and art, linens, silver, antique jewelry, antique rugs, and period decorative goods. All but one of the participants have been in the show before with most of them having participated for all four years.
Several of the towns gift shops, antiques shops and both antique malls will be open as well. Of special interest is the Main Street Market, opened in 2004, as a joint project of the active Main Street Association and the preservation minded Woodville Civic Club. It is on the northwest corner of the Court House Square.
Both local museums will be open during the hours of the shows. The Wilkinson County Museum which was opened in 1991 in the historic 1834 railroad office building on the southeast corner of the Court House Square has a series of permanent exhibits highlighting three centuries of Wilkinson County history. The African American Museum which opened in 2004 in the 1819 Branch Banking House will have the new permanent William Grant Still exhibit focusing on the life and work of the Wilkinson County native who went on to world wide acclaim as a symphony conductor in New York and Los Angeles, composer of operas and classical music, and even musical themes for shows in the early days of television. . . such as Gunsmoke!
Saturday Night Downtown a progressive drinks fundraiser at the museums and dinner at the towns newest restaurant . .Town Square Café, will be the weekend’s social highlight offering a unique chance to enjoy the museums themselves and explore the shops, a terrific new Pop-UP art gallery, and the lofts at the current restoration project of the old Woodville Hotel Building . . The Woodville Lofts.. . .right on the historic square. Reservations at $50.00 per person are available by calling 601.888.7151 or info@historicwoodville.com.
The Woodville Civic Club is an all-volunteer organization now in its 41st year who sponsor the weekend’s events to benefit and support both Wilkinson County Museums and their projects.
FOR INFORMATION: Please call 601.888.7868
Or contact us by email - info@historicwoodville.com