{"id":40313,"date":"2017-06-22T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=40313"},"modified":"2017-06-22T13:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T19:00:59","slug":"chancellors-house-joins-in-on-mississippi-bicentennial-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/chancellors-house-joins-in-on-mississippi-bicentennial-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Chancellors House Joins in on Mississippi Bicentennial Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">As part of the <strong>Mississippi Bicentennial<\/strong> weekend in <strong>Oxford<\/strong> June 23-25,<strong> Chancellors House<\/strong> will be hosting an event that celebrates the history and future of the <strong>Magnolia State<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The celebration will include an open house tour of Chancellor\u2019s House, as well as special visits from select VIPs including <strong>Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves<\/strong> and <strong>Katherine Blount<\/strong>, the <strong>Director of Mississippi Department of Archives and History<\/strong>. Public areas, rooms, suites and the hotel rooftop will all be shown on the tour. A classic \u201cMississippi Moonshine\u201d cocktail of moonshine and ginger lemonade will be offered as an homage to the history of Mississippi. Finally, Chancellor\u2019s House will also offer a presentation on the new <strong>Mississippi History Museum and Civil Rights Museum<\/strong> in <strong>Jackson<\/strong>, set to open December 9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. These museums now under construction represent the largest project in the state\u2019s capitol city since the building of the New Capitol in 1930. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">The open house will kick off at 10:00 am with participation from the <strong>Chairman of the Board of the Oxford Chamber Ryan Miller<\/strong>, <strong>Visit Oxford<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Mary Allyn Hedges<\/strong> and the <strong>Mayor Elect Robyn Tannehill<\/strong>. Tour guides will be available to take visitors on a tour through the elegant hotel to include the public spaces and even some rooms and suites. The event will culminate with the arrival of Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves and Katie Blount.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to host such a historic event at our fine establishment,\u201d said Chancellor\u2019s House <strong>Managing Director Michael Donoghue<\/strong>. \u201cAt Chancellor\u2019s House, everyone deserves to be pampered. With our open house, we\u2019re hoping to show the people of Mississippi and beyond how accessible fine luxury can be. We are now a part of Mississippi\u2019s history and are delighted to participate in the celebration.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Mississippi Bicentennial weekend in Oxford June 23-25, Chancellors House will be hosting an event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":40314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428],"tags":[9835,10587,6864,10589,10590,5,642,4,10588],"class_list":["post-40313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-event","tag-bicentennial","tag-chairman-of-the-board-of-the-oxford-chamber-ryan-miller","tag-chancellors-house","tag-mayor-elect-robyn-tannehill","tag-micahel-donghue","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-oxford","tag-visit-oxfords-mary-allyn-hedges"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-22-Chance-House.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}