The 41st Selma Pilgrimage is about a month away and organizers are putting the final touches on planning the event.

The pilgrimage will take place March 18-19 and will showcase many of Selma’s historic homes, churches and museums. Two of the stops on this year’s tour, the Reese-Hain-Nixon House and the Hampshire-McEarchen House, have never been on the tour before.

Greg Bjelke, who is overseeing this year’s pilgrimage, said the event is a chance for people to see what Selma has to offer.

“We don’t get to brag on ourselves, so we want to brag on ourselves,” Bjelke said. “This is an exciting time, not only for people who have their home on tour but neighbors get all excited. They want to put ferns out; they want to clean their street. There’s a buzz in the air of the Old Town area.”

This year’s pilgrimage will include seven houses in all, including the Woolsey House, Converse-Jackson House, Parkman-Smitherman House, Smith-Walker House and Hooker-McEachern House.

The museums on this year’s tour are Sturdivant Hall, the Old Depot Museum, the Vaughan Smitherman Museum and the Interpretive Center. Brown Chapel AME Church and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church are also featured. St. Paul’s will hold a luncheon on March 19 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Kenan’s Mill will grind corn during the tour and Old Live Oak Cemetery will hold a ghost tour that Saturday evening. The Selma Art Guild will hold a plein air art sale on March 19 from 4:30 p.m. until 6 p.m.

A package ticket, which includes all events, is $50 and a daytime ticket, which includes all daylight activities, is $40.

A child’s daytime ticket, which covers those 12 and under, is $20. A single daytime house ticket is $10 and the evening house tour and reception is $20. The cemetery tour is $10 and tickets to Kenan’s Mill and the two museums are $5 each.

Admission to the churches and to the two art shows is free.