• 1. Where to Stay
• 2. Where to Eat
• 3. What to Do
• 4. Insider’s Tip
• 5. An Oddball Day

Many of Natchez’s historic houses are only open during certain times of the year, known as Spring and Fall Pilgrimage. Check out Natchez Pilgrimage Tours for schedules.

Cultural anthropologist John Doughty Jr.’s Junior's Juke Joint exhaustively covers the just-off-the-cotton-field music of the Mississippi Delta.

The weekly papers for Memphis and New Orleans, the Flyer and the Gambit respectively, are the best sources for arts and events listings.

Jane and Michael Stern’s Roadfood is an excellent guide to highway dining throughout the South.

Published on April 25, 2007 as a web exclusive.