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The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science is currently hosting a traveling exhibition titled “Game Changers,” which aims to allow guests to discover how innovation has shaped the video-game industry from its origins into the present.
Kids Fest Jackson will feature bounce houses, obstacle courses, a LEGO building area, a Nerf battle maze, a coloring area, photo ops with characters such as princesses and superheroes, slides, a 50-foot warrior jump course, artwork courses courtesy of local artists, balloon art, tricycle races, a magician, concession areas and more.
In Mississippi, a number of cities owe their very existence to railways, with towns growing up around outposts that originally began only to serve the trains and rail workers, leading to the rail lines attracting industry rather than the other way around.
The Jackson Kart Track at Buddy Butts Park is roughly three-eighths of a mile and is a road-course-style sprint track, which means it is purpose-built for go-kart use down to the radius of the turns, the length of the track and even the asphalt composition.
The city of Natchez’ centuries-old historic homes, and the wealth behind their construction, came at tremendous human cost, with the city’s prosperity built upon the backs of enslaved Black Americans.
Visitors will be able to meet up close with two of the Hattiesburg Zoo’s friendliest sloths, Chewie and Maple, at the zoo’s third annual Sloth-A-Thon
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