New Eudora Welty House and Garden Website Offers Many Resources
For a thorough resource of up-to-date information about the Eudora Welty House and Garden, explore the new website eudoraweltyhouse.com produced by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Rich with photographs, the site shares details about learning opportunities from field trips to internships. You will also find out about upcoming events and links to free educational […] Read more »
Welty Garden Now Welcoming Visitors Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10-2
After closure for public safety because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Eudora Welty Garden is now open to the public from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The Welty House and the Welty Education and Visitor Center are not open at this time, but visitors are welcome to tour the garden at […] Read more »
Readers Invited To Participate in “Welty at Home” Virtual Book Club Beginning April 29
To foster communication with Welty lovers during the Coronavirus “separation period,” the staff of the Eudora Welty House and Garden has created a virtual book club called “Welty at Home.” Rachel Lott, Special Projects Coordinator, explains the details below. Together, we’ll read and discuss Losing Battles over the course of ten weeks. Each week, we’ll read an […] Read more »
Margaret Pless of University of Mississippi To Receive Eudora Welty Research Fellowship
Margaret Pless, a Ph. D. candidate at the University of Mississippi with special interest in American literature from 1920-2020, has been selected to receive the 2020 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). Contemporary Southern memoir and literary criticism that incorporates the personal is […] Read more »