January 18 Program on Conservationist Fannye Cook To Feature New Book, Interpretation, Link to Welty Family
Eudora Welty and Fannye Cook were two of the most significant Mississippians of the twentieth century—one a founder of a state agency and the Museum of Natural Science, the other an internationally acclaimed writer and photographer. What’s less well known is that for years the two women lived in the same house. Cook was a […] Read more »
Vote for Welty House and Garden for USA TODAY’s Best Readers’ Choice Award
December 8, 2017, Early Morning Snowfall at the Eudora Welty House and Garden, photograph by Cooper Morrison Please vote for the Eudora Welty House and Garden to be named one of the USA TODAY’s 10 Best Readers’ Choice Award winners. The Welty House is a finalist among the nominees for Best Mississippi Attraction! You […] Read more »
Second Eudora Welty Lecture with Chimamanda Adichie To Air on C-SPAN2 November 25 and 26
The second annual Eudora Welty Lecture with internationally award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be aired on C-SPAN2 on Saturday, November 25 at 7:45 p.m. CT and again on Sunday, November 26 at 12 noon CT. For more information on C-SPAN’s programming schedule go to www.c-span.org. Sponsored by the Welty Foundation in partnership with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, the lecture […] Read more »
Poet Claudia Rankine To Read from Citizen October 27 at Millsaps Friday Forum
On Friday, October 27, acclaimed poet and 2016 MacArthur Foundation Fellow Claudia Rankine will read from her prize-winning book Citizen: An American Lyric in the Gertrude C. Ford Recital Hall at Millsaps. A part of the Friday Forum series, the reading will begin at 12:50 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Lemuria Books will have copies […] Read more »