Stanton HallSee the magnolias in bloom – Mississippi’s state flowerTour historic antebellum homes with costumed hosts

Tour the museum home of Longwood

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DAYS 1 & 2 – Our Journey BeginsWith a welcome dinner and overnight in Missouri, we come to Missis-sippi and the B.B. King Museum. Here, we learn about the life of theBlues music’s foremost ambassador. The exhibits include thousands ofrare artifacts, award-winning films and interactive displays. Later, wecontinue to Vicksburg. (Dinner and breakfast)

DAY 3 – Vicksburg National Military Park and Windsor RuinsThis morning a licensed park guide joins us for a narrated tour ofVicksburg National Military Park. Our guide makes history come aliveand offers a unique opportunity to explore the battlefield. Learn aboutcivilian life and military operations of the defense of Vicksburg in thespring and summer of 1863. Later, we follow a portion of the NatchezTrace Parkway where we come upon the ruins of a once grand planta-tion mansion, Windsor. Sprawling over 2,600 acres the plantationhome survived the Civil War only to be burned to the ground by acigar left carelessly unattended. Tonight, dinner is at the MagnoliaBluffs Casino. (Breakfast and dinner)

8 DAYS • 13 MEALS4 Free home or local pickup and return4 Fully escorted with deluxe motorcoach transportation4 13 Meals (4 dinners, 2 lunches and 7 breakfasts)4 Tour the BB King Museum, the Blues music’s foremost ambassador4 Narrated tour of Vicksburg National Military Park with a licensed guide4 Travel along a portion of the scenic Natchez Trace Parkway4 See the ruins of the once grand mansion of Windsor Plantation4 Spend three nights in Historic Natchez, Mississippi, during Pilgrimage time, featuring historic home visits, live musical performances and Southern cuisine 4 Attend Southern Road to Freedom show4 Natchez Pilgrimage home tours include Longwood, America’s largest octagonal house and Stanton Hall, a palatial Greek Revival antebellum residence4 Vist a private antebellum residence4 Included southern cuisine dinner in the Carriage House Restaurant at Stanton Hall4 Take a narrated tour of Frogmore Plantation, a working cotton plantation4 Included lunch at Morgan Freeman’s Ground Zero Blues Club4 Tour the Delta Blues Museum, a celebration of the Blues music4 Narrated tour of St. Louis to see the Gateway Arch and St. Louis Cathedral4 Visit the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum to learn of his life4 $40 in Mayflower Money

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Enjoy three nights in Natchez, Mississippi, during the Spring Pilgrimage and attend a special performance

of the Southern Road to Freedom, featuring the Holy FamilyChoir with a plantation dinner at Stanton Hall’s

Carriage House Restaurant.

Tour Natchez’s lovely Antebellum Homes

Enjoy the sights of Natchez

DAY 4 – Experience the Natchez PilgrimageWe begin our Southern experience at the Natchez Visitor Centerwhere we learn about Natchez and its annual pilgrimages. Dating backto 1932, Natchez has been welcoming “pilgrims” into its antebellumand Greek Revival homes with the very essence of 19th-century gen-tility. Our first museum home visit is the impressive Longwood. Thenation’s largest octagonal house, Longwood’s construction began in1860 but was halted by rising tensions over the Civil War. While theexterior of this octagonal edifice is largely complete, only the home’slowest level was finished. After our included lunch we head to ournext museum home, the stunning Stanton Hall. This palatial GreekRevival antebellum residence is elegantly furnished with period an-tiques and original Stanton family pieces. From its delicate archedmillwork in the hall and parlors to the outstanding marble mantlesand large pier mirrors, the home has infinite appeal. (Breakfast and lunch)

DAY 5 – Frogmore Plantation and Evening Live ShowToday we travel to neighboring Louisiana to Frogmore Plantation fora glimpse at the past and present of a real working cotton planta-tion. See slave quarters, hear about their customs and listen to theirsecret music in a live performance held in the on-site church house.You will also see the historic 1884 Munger steam cotton gin beforefast forwarding to the present 1800-acre cotton plantation operatedby a 900 bales-per-day cotton gin. This afternoon we tour one ofNatchez’s private homes where the home owners themselves,dressed in 19th-century costumes, show us their daily life in a his-toric Natchez home. We return to Stanton Hall where we are treatedto a bountiful plantation dinner in the property’s elegant CarriageHouse Restaurant. Then, we have reserved seats to Southern Road toFreedom, a stirring musical tribute to the area’s African-Americansand features the award-winning Holy Family Choir. (Breakfast and dinner)

DAY 6 – Ground Zero Blues Club and Delta Blues MuseumTraveling north we come to the town of Clarksdale. Located at theintersection of Highways 61 and 49 – known as “The Crossroads,”Clarksdale’s roots with the Blues culture dates back to the 1920s.We enjoy an included lunch at the unique, Morgan Freeman-ownedGround Zero Blues Club, established in 2001 to celebrate the area’srich Blues heritage. At the Delta Blues Museum we learn how the

Blues was born and grew up in the area thanks to musicians likeMuddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke and Ike Turner. Here,they are dedicated to exploring the history and heritage of theunique American musical art form of the Blues. Later, we continueto Tunica where we spend the night. For those who wish, maybegive “Lady Luck” a try! (Breakfast and lunch)

DAY 7 – St. Louis City TourWe depart Tunica this morning and travel north to the “Show Me”state of Missouri. We arrive in St. Louis where a local guide showsus the city called “The Gateway to the West.” Learn the history ofthis great city from its founding through the present day and seesuch world-class attractions as the Gateway Arch, Soulard Marketand the amazing mosaics of the St. Louis Cathedral. (Breakfast and dinner)

DAY 8 – Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and HomeAfter breakfast, we cross back into Illinois and make a stop at theAbraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. Here, the story of Lincolncomes to life through immersive exhibits and displays of originalartifacts. (Breakfast)

Southern Road to Freedom – a stirring musical tribute

Enjoy lunch at the Ground Zero Blues Club

Visit the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONSDay One – Pear Tree Inn, Sikeston, MODay Two – La Quinta Inn, Vicksburg, MSDays Three through Five – Magnolia Bluffs Hotel, Natchez, MSDay Six – The Fitzgerald Casino and Hotel, Tunica, MSDay Seven – Drury Inn Westport, Saint Louis, MO

Cancellation Fee Waiver (CFW) - $60On a Mayflower Motorcoach tour, the cost of the tour is refundable less the deposit amount when cancel-lations are made more than 30 days prior to departure. If you purchase the optional Cancellation Fee Waiver(CFW), you will be refunded all payments, less the $60 for the CFW. While on tour, if a passenger must leave earlydue to a personal illness, illness or death of a member of the immediate family or a traveling companion, the pur-chase of the Cancellation Fee Waiver guarantees full refund for any unused services. Should you choose not topurchase our Cancellation Fee Waiver, the following per person cancellation charges will be assessed:31 days or more Deposit Amount30 to 7 days prior $300 per person6 to 1 day prior $400 per personDay of departure 100% of the tour costEarly departure from tour 100% of the tour costNo refund on unused portions of the tour

Exclusions:Mayflower Tours reserves the right to alter its Refund and Cancellation Policy when a substantialamount of cancellation or postponement of travel is attributable to: conditions resulting from an act of God, naturalor man-made disaster, fire, government action, civil disorder, war, hostilities between nations, or unavailability oftransportation through no fault of Mayflower Tours.

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Natchez, once home to the wealthiest people in the United States, has been welcoming “pilgrims”since the early 1930s. Originally, the Spring Pilgrimage attracted tourists to the city to view thebeautiful gardens. However, one spring, a late freeze spoiled the blooms and the women ofNatchez opened their homes to visitors – and they have been on display ever since.

The annual Spring Pilgrimage is a display of true southern gentility. Costumed home owners givetours of their beautifully decorated 18th- and 19th-century Greek revival, mansions and lush gar-dens. Special musical concerts are performed at local churches and halls. And the town is abuzzwith excitement.

Join Mayflower Tours for this SPECIAL EVENT and experience the antebellum homes, lush gar-dens, costumed hosts and live musical performance that are exclusive to the Spring Pilgrimage.

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