Jay Sowers / The Natchez Democrat — Re-enactor John W. Fisher, center, holds a bottle of essence of peppermint for Tate Breithaupt, 7, to smell during the annual Pioneer Day encampment at Historic Jefferson College in Natchez on Saturday morning. Fisher brought a collection of medicines that were the best available in the 1800s.

Jay Sowers / The Natchez Democrat — Re-enactor Angle Stahr reads a book about the Natchez Trace Parkway while sitting under a live oak tree.