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Hello!
 Welcome to the latest Express Mail, the newsletter of the Fondren Express Trolley. In this edition, we continue to book Welty tours, learn yet another way the trolley is chartered, meet a new advertiser, and talk photography - Mississippi architectural style. Read on to find out more! |
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Booking Now For Welty Centennial Tours
Hop
aboard and step back in time with a nostalgic trolley ride through
Jackson to celebrate the centennial of the great Mississippi writer
Eudora Welty. We invite you to celebrate by touring her home, exploring
her town, and enjoying commemorative
events April 14-18. The Fondren Express will provide
transportation for the Eudora Welty experience stops with a guide on
board to enhance the tour. Day packages are available and include
trolley transportation and touring, lunch at the Fairview Inn, and a
Welty photography exhibit at the Mississippi Museum of Art. The
overnight package adds a night at the historic Fairview Inn, and a
theatrical production of The Ponder Heart at New Stage Theatre. To
book the day package, visit FondrenExpress.com. |
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Trolley Shuttles Market Attendees
 How far is the walk from the Marriott to the Trademart? No worries, market attendees: that's a question you didn't need an answer for with the Fondren Express at your service! We were honored this past weekend to have shuttled HDW reps to and from their annual spring hardware show in Jackson.
HDW
is an employee owned wholesale distributor of hardware and building
material products with corporate headquarters in
Shreveport, Louisiana, and distribution centers in Louisiana and
Mississippi.
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City View Condominiums Offer Luxury
 The Fondren Express welcomes our newest advertiser...and shows you a place ready to welcome you home! City View Condominiums on State Street are luxurious one bedroom, one bedroom deluxe, and two bedroom units that are touted by their builders to be of "uncommon quality." Exotic tiger wood flooring in the hallways, granite counter tops, and a rooftop terrace are just a few of the spectacular amenities that make City View the newest jewel of the Capital city. An on-site model is available for viewing Tuesday - Friday from 10am-6pm and by appointment on weekends. Only 22 units remain and with close proximity to Baptist, UMC, St. Dominic's, and downtown offices, they won't remain long. To schedule a viewing, call 601-354-7004, or visit CityViewJackson.com.
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Captain's Photos Chosen For Exhibit
 We knew he was a great driver, host, and personality, but now there's another reason to celebrate Captain Ron. Ron Mills' photography has been chosen to hang as part of an architectural photo exhibit beginning Saturday through April 11 at the Mississippi Center for the Arts downtown. The exhibit is a traveling show celebrating America's favorite architecture, along with architecture from Mississippi, art by architects, and architectural photos submitted by local shutterbugs. Captain Ron submitted three entries and all were chosen by a panel of two local architects and a local photographer.
When I hired Ron Mills over two years ago, I had no idea that he had an interest in photography. He tells me he studied film making at USM for a time, and, while in the Service in the early 70's, film-based photography. And he hated it - the dealing with film part, that is. Captain Ron says the encouragement of some friends and a renewed interest caused his purchase of a proper digital SLR camera in November of last year. And the digital world is one he loves. Ron says modern technology has opened so many new windows for him. Those are windows we're glad he chose to look through - and to share the view with all of us.
Again, congratulations from the team here at the Fondren Express.
Alan French, founder, Fondren Express
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Thank you for supporting Fondren and the Fondren Express. Please visit our website at FondrenExpress.com and support the merchants and restaurants who support us. We love hearing from you, so send us your comments and suggestions to news@fondrenexpress.com.
Captain Ron and Crew
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