Advent Episcopal Day School in Birmingham, Alabama, invites middle- and high-school students and teachers from throughout the South to attend the sixth annual Southern Cultures Celebration on February 3-4, 2000. "The Heroic Southerner" is the theme for sessions on heroes in Southern history, in the work of Southern playwrights, in movies, and in Native American culture. The event will also include a performance and an exhibition, Southern Women Artists, 1840-1940. Request Information by telephone (205-252-2535), fax (205-252-3023), or e-mail (cbattles@advent.pvt.k12.a1.us).

The Horry County Museum is looking for antique quilts to exhibit at the Horry Cultural Arts Council's new gallery at 303 Main Street, Conway, South Carolina, during the month of February 2000. The exhibition will be a part of the museum's sixth annual quilt gala. For an application or for more information, contact the museum at 843-248-1542 or 843-626-1281.

Settlement to Streetcar Suburbs: Richmond and Its People will be exhibited at the Valentine Museum of Richmond, Virginia, through 2000. The exhibition, using artifacts and photographs from the museum's collection, will tell Richmond's story around four themes: Tobacco and Cavaliers, Gabriel Meets Jefferson's America, Confederate Contradiction, and Old South/New South. Request information by telephone (804-649-0711), fax (804-643-3510), or e-mail (valmus@mindspring.com).

The 29th annual Audubon Pilgrimage of the West Feliciana Historical Society, scheduled for March 17-19, 2000, will present five historic houses in or near St. Francisville, Louisiana. The houses are Oakley, where John James Audubon stayed in 1821; two other plantation homes, Rosale (1835) and Wakefield (1834); Goldman (1887), home of a Jewish-German barkeep; and Magnolia Hill, built in 1893 by the carpenter son of an English brick mason. Also on the tour are a recreated homesite typical of the plain folk of the rural South, three 19th-century churches, and Afton Villa's extensive gardens and serpentine avenue of live oaks. For information about the tours and other pilgrimage events, contact the Society at Box 338, St. Francisville, LA 70775; telephone 225-635-6330.

To Kill a Mockingbird, a two-act play based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will be presented this spring in Monroeville, Alabama, the author's hometown. The production which casts community members in all parts of the story about racial injustice in 1930s Alabama, is scheduled for three weekends in May. Tickets ($20 each; $18 for groups of 10 or more) go on sale Monday, March 1. For more information or to purchase tickets, call the Monroe County Heritage Museums at 334-575-7433.