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SUMMARY:Tales from the Crypt
DESCRIPTION:Mona Vance-Ali will speak about Tales from the Crypt\, a 
 program that includes high school juniors from the Mississippi School for 
 Math and Science (MSMS) who dress in period costume to perform vignettes on 
 individuals buried in Friendship Cemetery for public tours in March/April. 
 They research their assigned subject throughout the Fall semester and each 
 student completes an historical analysis on their persons life. Archivist 
 Mona Vance-Ali and her team work closely with the MSMS students in 
 navigating the historical resources available in the Columbus-Lowndes 
 Public Library System archive that date back to the 1830s. The Tales from 
 the Crypt project has won numerous awards and was featured on NPR’s 
 “All Things Considered” in 2015. To learn more visit 
 https://themsms.org/tales-from-the-crypt/.\n\nMona Vance-Ali has been the 
 Archivist for the Local History Department at the Columbus-Lowndes Public 
 Library System for 20 years. She received her MA in History/Public History 
 from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and her MLIS from the 
 University of Southern Mississippi.\n\nIn 2011\, she published a book 
 titled Images of America: Columbus. From 2014-2017\, she taught a class on 
 Public History at Mississippi University for Women.\n\nShe has received 
 several state and national grants through the Mississippi Humanities 
 Council\, Library Services and Technology Act\, National Endowment for the 
 Humanities\, and the National Historical Publications and Records 
 Commission with the National Archives and Records Administration.
LOCATION:Faulkner Room (318 A)
ORGANIZER;CN="Greg Johnson":MAILTO:gj1@olemiss.edu
CATEGORIES:Speaker
CONTACT;CN="Greg Johnson":MAILTO:gj1@olemiss.edu
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