walking required
Breakfast at the hotel.
Travel by motor coach to Mississippi's state capitol, Jackson. Field trip to Old Capitol Museum and bookstore and to the Governor's Mansion, the second-oldest continuously occupied official residence of a governor in the United States, built in 1842.
Informal lunch at downtown site in Jackson, Miss.
Field trip to two adjoining, new museums, the Mississippi Museum and the Civil Rights Museum. Excursion to Eudora Welty House, home of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Tour of Cedar Grove mansion in Vicksburg, an historic site that still contains remnants of a cannon ball fired during the Civil War. After the tour, dinner in the mansion.
Informal recapture of the day's activities