The Southern Women Writers Conference will take place at Berry College April 13-15, 2000. Featured speakers will include literary scholars Peggy Prenshaw and Susan Ketchin and authors Nikki Giovanni, George Ella Lyon, Jill McCorkle, and Brenda Marie Osbey. For information, contact Emily Wright, English Department, Berry College. P.O. Box 495010, Mount Berry, GA 30149; e-mail ewright@berry.edu; telephone 706-233-4081; fax 706-238-7827.

The Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum in Water Valley, Mississippi, will observe the 100th anniversary of the Casey Jones wreck at Vaughan on Saturday and Sunday, April 29 and 30. Events are also planned in Jackson, Tennessee, and at Vaughan, Mississippi. For information, contact Museum Curator J. K. Gurner at 662-473-2849 or gurnerjk@watervalley.net. The museum web site is http://www.watervalley.net/users/caseyjones/home.htm.

Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, will host a Summer Institute of Christian Spirituality comprised of biblical, historical, pastoral, and moral courses led by faculty from its division of philosophy and theology. Session 1 will be held June 4 10, and session 2 will be June 11-17. For more information contact Pat Warren, coordinator of the Institute, at 334-380-4672.