Afternoon: 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. registration in the hotel lobby. At 6:00 p.m. attend a Welcome-To-Natchez reception with complimentary wine at the hotel.

Dinner: Dinner will be in the hotel.

Evening: Introductions of individuals, overview of the week's program, and overview of Natchez's history.

Lodging: Natchez Grand Hotel

Meals Included: Dinner

Lectures about Natchez history and culture and the Historic Trails project. Guided walking tour along the Mississippi River. Tour of historic Rosalie mansion. "Chopin and Champagne," a concert at an historic house. Dinner at an early building.

Note: walking

Breakfast: Breakfast is served every morning beginning at 6:30 a.m. in the hotel dining room.

Morning: A lecture about slavery and its impact on Natchez history and a lecture by the city engineer, who designed the Historic Trails project will set the stage for the Natchez visit.

Lunch: A lunch will be in a downtown restaurant.

Afternoon: A guided walk along the river bluff will lead to the historic mansion, Rosalie, where experts will lead you through. A piano concert by an Eastman School of Music graduate in his historic home will be followed by champagne and a tour. The event is called "Chopin and Champagne."

Dinner: Dinner will follow the day's historical agenda. It will be at one of the oldest buildings in town.

Evening: Informal discussion of points of interest in the historic cotton warehouse, now converted to an upscale restaurant and lounge. A stroll along the river will be highlighted by a magnificent sunset and lighted river bridges.

Lodging: Natchez Grand Hotel

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Lecture on Natchez architectural styles and decorative arts. Exploration of an early church and a temple. A dinner modeled after a Natchez meal in 1836. A lecture about "The Black Swan," Elizabeth Greenfield, born a slave and an international singer.

Note: walking

Breakfast: Breakfast will be in the hotel dining room beginning at 6:30 a.m.

Morning: A lecture on architectural styles and decorative arts in Natchez buildings will precede a guided tour of St. Mary Basilica, one of the grandest Roman Catholic churches in the Deep South. Built in the 1840s, it was first a cathedral. The morning also includes a guided tour of Temple B'Nai Israel, one of the earliest Jewish congregations in the South.

Lunch: Luncheon at a downtown site.

Afternoon: Free time in the afternoon. Free wine at the hotel prior to an early dinner.

Dinner: An early dinner will be at a downtown restaurant featuring delectable foods mentioned in William Johnson's 1836 diary entries, foods continually eaten in the Deep South until today. It precedes a 7 p.m. lecture.

Evening: Noted historian Dr. David Sansing of the U. of Miss. will speak at 7 p.m. on "The Black Swan," Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, who was born a slave in Natchez. Her owner recognized her unusual vocal gifts, took her to Philadelphia for vocal training, and away she went to great fame and success in the U.S. and abroad. She sang a command performance for Queen Victoria. This is part of the Natchez Festival of Music and leads up to a concert by a contemporary vocalist using Ms. Greenfield's scores. The program will be at historic Trinity Episcopal Church. After the program a guided tour of the church will take place.

Lodging: Natchez Grand Hotel

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Program about William Johnson, a Free Black; visit to his home. Lunch in a mansion. Tour of First Presbyterian Church and Historic Photographs gallery. Lecture on the river and the Civil War. Concert at Cherokee as part of Natchez Festival of Music.

Note: walking

Breakfast: A full breakfast will be served in the hotel dining room beginning at 6:30 a.m.

Morning: Program about the Free Black, William Johnson, who died in 1853, with visit to his downtown home, which was restored and is now managed by the National Park Service.

Lunch: A private, specially arranged luncheon will be at a downtown mansion, Magnolia Hall. A guided tour of the mansion will be included.

Afternoon: Guided tour of First Presbyterian Church (1828) and its gallery, in which is a collection of more than 500 historic photographs, called Natchez in Historic Photographs." Lecture on the Mississippi River and its importance during the Civil War. At 5 p.m. is a concert, "The Black Swan Returns," at the mansion Cherokee, part of the Natchez Festival of Music. Diana Thompson, soprano, will perform.

Dinner: Dinner will be at a downtown location.

Evening: Screening of the dramatization of Eudora Welty's story, "A Worn Path," set in Natchez and on the Natchez Trace.

Lodging: Natchez Grand Hotel

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Program about social customs in the Deep South, 1790-1860. Tour of National Historic Landmark Stanton Hall. Lunch at the Carriage House. Tour of Dunleith gardens. Performance of "Kiss Me, Kate," part of the 23d annual Natchez Festival of Music.

Note: walking

Breakfast: Breakfast will be served in the dining room beginning at 6:30 a.m.

Morning: Program about less than genteel social customs in the Deep South, 1790-1860. Tour of Stanton Hall, a National Historic Landmark.

Lunch: Lunch will be at the Carriage House on the grounds of Stanton Hall mansion.

Afternoon: Tour of Dunleith gardens surrounding the mansion, a fully colonnaded structure dating to the 1850s and a National Historic Landmark.

Dinner: An early dinner at The Castle on the grounds of Dunleith.

Evening: A performance of "Kiss Me, Kate," a part of the Natchez Festival of Music

Lodging: Natchez Grand Hotel

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast will be served in the dining room beginning at 6:30 a.m.

Morning: Check out of hotel by 11 a.m.

Meals Included: Breakfast