12
1:30 pm
In Conversation
with Jesmyn Ward
GALLOWAY SANCTUARY
presented by Argent Wealth; Pass Christian
Books & Cat Island Coffeehouse
LeVar Burton, legendary actor and host
of Reading Rainbow, speaks with Jesmyn Ward,
two-time National Book Award winner and lifelong
Mississippian, about her newest novel, a meditation
on grief and memory through the story of a young girl’s
fight for freedom in the face of enslavement.
• LeVar Burton
• Jesmyn Ward – Let Us Descend
Cookbooks
GALLOWAY RECEPTION
presented by University of Southern
Mississippi College of Arts & Sciences
Delicious collections draw from the wisdom
of the Deep South and far-flung countries
to create meals as captivating as they are comforting.
• Enrika Williams (moderator)
• Robert St. John – Mississippi Mornings
• Dale Gray – South of Somewhere:
Recipes and Stories from My Life in South Africa, South Korea
& the American South
• Ann Taylor Pittman – The Global Pantry Cookbook:
Transform Your Everyday Cooking with Tahini, Gochujang, Miso,
and Other Irresistible Ingredients
• Anne Byrn – Baking in the American South:
200 Recipes and Their Untold Stories
(A Definitive Guide to Southern Baking)
Families are invited to join the authors and illustrators
of picture books for an incredible learning experience
about animals, music, and nature.
• Sarah Frances Hardy (moderator) – One Mississippi
• Mary Annaïse Heglar – The World is Ours to Cherish:
A Letter to a Child
• Heather C. Morris – Trunk Goes Thunk!:
A Woodland Tale of Opposites
• Allen R. Wells – Danté Plays His Blues
• Marshall Ramsey – Saving Sam!:
A Banjo the Dog Story
Live-stream at
msbookfestival.com
Picture This!
GALLOWAY FELLOWSHIP
CENTER
presented by Sara & Bill Ray;
The Ragland Company
A Letter to a Child
The World Is
Ours to Cherish
By Mary Annaïse Heglar Illustrated by Vivian Mineker
Sebastian Junger
STATE CAPITOL 113
presented by The McMullan / O’Connor
Fund; University of Southern Mississippi
College of Arts & Sciences
Sebastian Junger, award-winning war journalist
and lifelong atheist, discusses a near-death experience
that led him to rethink what, exactly, happens
after we die.
• Sebastian Junger – In My Time of Dying:
How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
family-
friendly