Photo feature: Birthday wishes

Published 12:08 am Friday, February 22, 2013

JAY SOWERS / THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT — Former Mississippi governor William Winter and Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration director of proceedings William F. Winter, right, shares a laugh with Mayor Pro Tempore of the City of Natchez, Joyce Arceneaux-Mathis, during his 90th birthday celebration at The Briars in Natchez late Thursday afternoon.

JAY SOWERS / THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT —
Former Mississippi governor William Winter and Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration director of proceedings William F. Winter, right, shares a laugh with Mayor Pro Tempore of the City of Natchez, Joyce Arceneaux-Mathis, during his 90th birthday celebration at The Briars in Natchez late Thursday afternoon.

 

JAY SOWERS / THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT — Carolyn Vance Smith, left, presents a special brick-bookend with the portrait of Varina Howell Davis, to former Mississippi governor William Winter and his wife, Elise, during his 90th birthday celebration at The Briars in Natchez late Thursday afternoon. The Natchez-born Varina Howell Davis was the second wife of Jefferson Davis.

JAY SOWERS / THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT —
Carolyn Vance Smith, left, presents a special brick-bookend with the portrait of Varina Howell Davis, to former Mississippi governor William Winter and his wife, Elise, during his 90th birthday celebration at The Briars in Natchez late Thursday afternoon. The Natchez-born Varina Howell Davis was the second wife of Jefferson Davis.