The Life on the Mississippi Reading Retreat will be held on September 7, 2024. The two books are Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi, published in 1883, and Rinker Buck’s Life on the Mississippi, published in 2022. Twain and Buck both traveled down the Mississippi River and chronicled their experiences. Twain reminisces on his life

Rosanne Cash will host the third annual Sunken Lands Songwriting Circle and will be joined by Trisha Yearwood, with accompaniment by John Leventhal. The event will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 12, in Riceland Hall of Fowler Center. Description: A pre-sale for Boyhood Home Museum members will start on Tuesday, July 1.