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Asylum Hill Project Updates

Portrait of Dr. Jennifer Mack

When: Monday, July 18, 2022, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: WebEx

Contact Info: Lida Gibson at lbgibson@umc.edu or 601-984-6790

Description:

Dr. Jennifer Mack, Lead Bioarchaeologist for The Asylum Hill Project, will give the virtual seminar "The Asylum Hill Cemetery Exhumations: Fact vs. Fiction," at noon on Monday, July 18, online via WebEx for UMMC Employees to inform them about the upcoming archaeology work that will begin on campus this fall. A team of archaeologists will begin exhuming human remains that were associated with the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum between 1855 and 1935.