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Dec.31, 2016
The obituary below was published in the fall 2016 edition of From the Mountain, semiannual publication of the School of Theology at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., where Bishop Gray went to seminary. Gray later was acting ...
July 27, 2016
The Rt. Rev. Duncan Montgomery Gray Jr., 89, died July 15, 2016 at home in Jackson, Miss. The retired seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi was 89.
He was buried in Canton July 19 after a Requiem ...
Oct. 1, 2012
Listen below to Debbie Elliott’s report marking the 50th anniversary of the Ole Miss riot over the admission of James Meredith, above right, to the university. Duncan Gray’s voice can be heard near the end of the 7:46 ...
June 8, 2011
At a book party this evening, singer/songwriter/activist Si Kahn sang for his guests his own composition inspired by the publication of And One Was A Priest. Below is a video of that song.
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May 19, 2011
Author Araminta Stone Johnston was interviewed by Mississippi Public Radio’s Ezra Wall. The edited interview aired as part of Mississippi Edition on Thursday, May 19. It was recorded May 10.
May 15, 2011
Below are links to all the stops on author Araminta Stone Johnston’s 2011 Mississippi Book Tour. In each case, click the picture for more information.
May 15, 2011
Author Araminta Stone Johnston, in red jacket during the Forum hour at ...
May 15, 2011
Author Araminta Stone Johnston returned to the parish of her birth, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Oxford, and spent the church’s Forum hour with new and old friends. She read from And One Was A Priest, and talked ...
May 14, 2011
The author signed books and read from And One Was A Priest this afternoon at the Barnes & Noble store in Tupelo, Miss.
Below is a video from the event.
May 13, 2011
The pictures below were taken during the book signing at Lorelei Books in Vicksburg, and from the bluff above a swollen Mississippi River.
May 12, 2011
Bishop Duncan M. Gray Jr., left, talks with townspeople at a book signing Thursday at Reed’s Gum Tree Bookstore in Tupelo, Miss. Gray and author Araminta Stone Johnston, in red blazer, signed copies of And One Was a ...
May 11, 2011
Bishop Gray recalls little-known supporters of the 1950s equal justice effort during a talk at the Winter Archives in Jackson.
May 10, 2011
Bishop Gray talked about his wife Ruthie at a book signing at Lemuria Books in Jackson, Miss.
May 9, 2011
In the video below from a book signing at Square Books, Araminta Stone Johnston and Duncan M. Gray Jr. recall the night of the Ole Miss riot in 1962.
March 24, 2011
Friends, colleagues and students of Araminta Stone Johnston attended this evening’s reading at Park Road Books in Charlotte.
The author signed copies of And One Was A Priest purchased by a number of people who attended. After the reading, ...
Feb, 13, 2011
Araminta Johnston, left, joined poets David Radavich and Blynn Field in reading from their works today at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Charlotte. The three, all members of the parish, have recently published books.
Radavich’s Middle-East Mezze was published ...
Jan. 26, 2011
And One Was A Priest author Araminta S. Johnston will travel to four Mississippi cities in May 2011 to appear at book signings.
The subject of the biography, Bishop Duncan M. Gray Jr., is tentatively scheduled to join the ...
Jan. 26, 2011
Park Road Books in Charlotte has scheduled And One Was A Priest author Araminta S. Johnston to read from her new biography of Bishop Duncan M. Gray Jr. and to sign copies of the University Press of Mississippi ...
Jan. 13, 2011
The Church of St. John in Laurel, Miss. says on its Facebook page that And One Was A Priest is “a great start” for people “interested in some history of the Diocese of Mississippi and her bishops.”