Columbus, Mississippi, birthplace of Tennessee Williams, will honor the playwright with lectures and performances during a weekend that will also offer tours of the town’s Victorian homes. The program will begin on Thursday, September 11, with a production of Truth in the Guise of Illusion at 7:00 p.m. 
     Friday’s event will include talks on Williams by literary scholars Clyde Williams, of Mississippi State University, and Jane Hinton, of Mississippi University for Women, as well as book signings, exhibitions, and a "Moon Lake Party" at Lake Norris. 
     Literary scholars Pearl McHaney, of Georgia State University, and W. Kenneth Holditch, professor emeritus, University of New Orleans, will give presentations on Saturday morning. Colby Kullman, of the University of Mississippi, will lecture on Night of the Iguana before the film version of the play is screened that afternoon. The Columbus Community Theatre will present an evening performance of This Property Is Condemned.  
     On Sunday, worship services at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, where the Reverend Walter E. Dakin was rector when the playwright, his grandson, was born, will be followed by lunch at noon and tours of Victorian homes in the afternoon. 
    There is no charge for lectures and the film. Play and tour tickets are $10 each. Tickets for lunch on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are $15 each, and the Moon Lake Party is $50 per person. 
    For more information, call 662-240-1832 or e-mail spatkaye@ebicom.net.