Lou Laird portrays one of the many lives lost during the Rhythm Night Club fire. She was joined by Darrin Parkhill who played the bagpipes at the site where many of the fire victims are buried. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

Neal Nathanson portrays his father Marty Nathanson, the owner of Marty’s in Vidalia and a longtime member and lay rabbi of Temple B’Nai Israel in Natchez. Neal talks into the microphone as if he is doing a radio jingle. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

Rusty Jenkins portrays Col. Thornton Alexander who owned the Steamboat Hotel on Silver Street before the hotel was destroyed in the tornado of 1840. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

(Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)