Event First Free Sundays

Free highlight tours will be offered on the first Sunday of each month. Special programs of traditional crafts, informative lectures, and family activities are planned for “First Free Sunday.”

Magnolia Mound: Museum + Historic Site

Buzz & Bloom

June 7 / 1-4 p.m.

Buzz on over to Magnolia Mound to learn more about bees and the production of honey! Stay to create bee-inspired crafts and take seeds home to begin your own pollinator garden. Magnolia Mound honey will be for sale from The Friends of Magnolia Mound. Activities are from 1-4 p.m. while supplies last.

Armand Duplantier: From the American Revolution to a Louisiana Plantation

July 5 / 1-4 p.m. / Presentation at 2 p.m.

Did you know Magnolia Mound was home to an American Revolutionary War veteran? Join us for a discussion about Armand Duplantier, a French officer serving as an aide-de-camp to Marquis de Lafayette during the Revolution.

Duplantier represents the vital role of international support in America’s struggle for independence. He also represents one of the Revolution’s contradictions. After the war, Duplantier settled in Louisiana and became a plantation owner, participating in a system that denied others the very freedoms he had helped defend. This program offers an opportunity to reflect on the complexities of the nation’s founding as we approach the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Presentation begins at 2 p.m.