At noon on Wednesday, August 5, Nan Prince, director of collections at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and Jessica Walzer, curator of collections and exhibits at MDAH, will explore how the Mississippi Made exhibit came together, from selecting the stories to include to uncovering the stories behind key artifacts, as part of the History Is Lunch series.

Admission to the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson is free every Sunday.

At noon on Wednesday, August 12, Randy Deaton, retired FBI special agent, will discuss the remarkable story of a nineteenth-century rifle carried by Private Charles H. Gibbs during the Mexican-American War and later tied to the Civil War. The rifle disappeared from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in the 1970s and remained missing for more than 40 years.