Woodville — After an exciting and successful first event last November, the folks in Woodville are rolling out the carpet again this November to selected dealers from nine states that display their wares at the Second Annual Woodville Antiques Show and Sale on U.S. 61 midway between St. Francisville and Natchez.

It will be a three-day show open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14 and 15 and from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 16. The European Antique Auction Gallery is conveniently located within the town limits on U.S. 61 North and will offer a cafe for lunch and snack breaks each day.

Visitors will marvel and shop with vendors offering a range of furnishings and art, linens, silver, antique jewelry and decorative goods. Several of the towns gift shops, antiques shops and both antique malls will be open as well.

On Friday and Saturday afternoons, docents will welcome guests at the Feltus-Catchings Home, an early 19th century center hall home which has been in the same family since 1899. The home will be open for private tours from noon until 4 p.m. Admission is $5

Inspiring the Next Generation: Exceptional Mississippi Women, an exhibit courtesy of the Museum of Mississippi History, will be open at the Wilkinson County Museum.

On Saturday evening, a gala dinner will be the weekend highlight offering a unique chance to see the restoration of the main house and gardens at Forest Home Plantation just east of town off Mississippi 24 on the Whitestown Road. Tickets are available for $50 per person. The gala event will begin at 7 p.m.

The Woodville Civic Club is an all volunteer organization, now in its 38th year, who sponsor the weekend’s events, to benfit the Wilkinson County Museum housed in the columned 1834 Office & Banking House of the West Feliciana Railroad on the court house square and their African American Musuem across the square in the classic Federal 1819 Branch Banking House.

Woodville has 244 sites in its in-town Natioanl Register District and countless antebellum plantations dot the countryside around this early Natchez District community. Jefferson Davis called it home and visited there all his life.

For more information visit www.historicwoodville.org.