At noon Wednesday, March 19, Juanita Hollinghead, educator and researcher, will examine her grandfather's murder during the Prohibition period as part of the History Is Lunch series. Hollinghead's book Beyond the Green Widow: Consequences of the Piney Woods Creek Murders of 1921 explores the responses to Prohibition in two small Mississippi towns: Leakesville and Richton. The program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums and will stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. Copies of Beyond the Green Widow will be available for sale with a signing to follow. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.
At noon Wednesday, March 19, Juanita Hollinghead, educator and researcher, will examine her grandfather's murder during the Prohibition period as p