Weekend ticket: Aircraft fly-in, poker run top weekend

Published 12:25 am Thursday, June 9, 2016

NATCHEZ — This weekend in Natchez is expected to be warm with a few showers and lots of things to do.

Friday is expected to have a high temperature of 92 degrees.

Saturday should be 90 degrees and Sunday 89 degrees.

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Friday is expected to have a 25-percent chance of precipitation, Saturday has a 55-percent chance and Sunday has a 61-percent chance.

Grand Village lecture

A presentation about carved stone pipes will be offered at 6 p.m. today at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians.

David Dockery, chief of the surface geology division at the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, will give a presentation on the stone effigy pipes discovered at several sites in the American Southeast. While these pipes are artistically similar, they are all made from a stone found only in Mississippi.

Admission is free.

Concordia Parish fly-in

Aircraft of all shapes and sizes from around Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi will fill the skies 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Concordia Parish Airport.

Antique classics, owner-built aircraft, factory-new planes and a warbird or two will arrive throughout the day.

A fly-over by the Bulldog Formation Flight Team is scheduled for 11 a.m.

The event is free to the public. Concessions will be available on site with grilled burgers and hotdogs. The public is invited to sit in the shade and watch arriving and departing aircraft and meet friendly pilots who are willing to introduce adults and children to the thrill of flight.

Poker run

A fundraiser poker run will be from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday on Lake St. John.

Proceeds will go to the fireworks display the evening after the Lake St. John Flotilla on July 2.

Cost is $25 per hand.

Tea and Tombstones

A tour of four rural cemeteries will be offered Sunday afternoon.

The bus will leave at 2:30 p.m. from the Natchez Visitor Center and return at 5:30 p.m.

Participants are asked to wear comfortable walking shoes.

Cost is $25.

Second Saturday Art Walk

Galleries will feature special exhibits and refreshments from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday.

A number of restaurants will be open late with great food and music.

Natchez Downtown Development Association sponsors the event.