Eichelberger Reads from ‘Tell About Night Flowers,’ New Book on Welty’s Correspondence About Gardening

Julia Eichelberger, editor of Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters 1940-1949, was honored at a reception Tuesday, August 13, at the Eudora Welty Education and Visitors Center. She read from the correspondence and signed books for guests. Published by University Press of Mississippi, Tell About Night Flowers focuses on the correspondence between Welty […] Read more »

Myrlie Evers Addresses Nation’s Teachers in NEH Workshop

Renowned human rights advocate Myrlie Evers addressed both sessions of “One Place, One Time: Jackson, Mississippi, 1963,” the National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops co-sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation and Millsaps College. Held July 14-19 and July 21-26 and attended by 80 teachers from around the nation, the […] Read more »