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Welty Photograph: Now available for purchase from the Eudora Welty Foundation is a limited print of Welty's photograph "Window Shopping." The proceeds go towards support of the Eudora Welty Foundation. For more information contact a member of the Eudora Welty House staff at (601) 353-7762 or email contact@eudorawelty.org.

Home Places: 5 Photographs taken by Welty: A series of limited-edition sets of black and white photographs is available for sale by the Mississippi History Store. Each print consists of a 11" by 14" sheet of silver paper, toned, and unmounted. Call (601) 576-6933 for more information.

Eudora Welty's World: Words on Nature: Edited by Patti Carr Black. Eudora Welty was deeply attuned to nature; her fiction is rich with her knowledge of and pleasure in the natural world. This is an attractive gift book, containing some of Welty's most evocative quotes on nature, complemented with watercolors of Mississippi scenes by artist Robin Whitfield. Cost is $25.00 including tax and postage. Please contact the Eudora Welty House at (601) 353-7762 or contact@eudorawelty.org for more information. Book proceeds go towards support of the Eudora Welty Foundation.

Two traveling exhibits are available from the Museum of Mississippi History, a division of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, for both in-state and out-of-state loan. The first exhibit, "Welty," juxtaposes some of Welty's 1930s era photographs with excerpts from her writing to show the relationship between her source material and her writing. "Eudora Welty: Other Places" presents photographs Welty took in New Orleans and New York City from 1936 to 1939. For more information, contact John Gardner, Curator of Exhibits, Museum Division, Mississippi Department of Archives and History at (601) 576-6928 or jgardner@mdah.state.ms.us. See the Calendar of Events to find where the exhibits are currently being shown.

Calendar of Events


August 11 - October 3, 2008: The Willie Mae Dunn Library, at Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Natchez, Mississippi, presents the exhibit "Eudora: Other Places." For more information, call (601) 643-8363.

September 15 - November 7, 2008: The B. J. Chain Public Library, Olive Branch, Mississippi, presents the exhibit "Welty." For more information, call (601) 895-5900.

November 10, 2008 - January 2, 2009: The Sam Lapidus Memorial Public Library, Crenshaw, Mississippi, presents the exhibit "Welty." For more information, call (662) 382-7479.

January 5 - February 27, 2009: The Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library presents the exhibit "Eudora Welty: Other Places." For more information, call (662) 234-5751.

January 5 - March 27, 2009: The University of Mississippi Libraries, Oxford, Mississippi, presents the exhibit "Welty." For more information, call (662) 915-5855.

March 2 - April 24, 2009: The Sardis Public Library presents the exhibit "Eudora Welty: Other Places." For more information, call (662) 487-2126.

March 30 - May 22, 2009: Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, presents the exhibit "Welty." For more information, call (404) 413-2000.

April 27 - June 19, 2009: The Hernando Public Library presents the exhibit "Eudora Welty: Other Places." For more information, call (662) 429-4439.

August 3 - September 25, 2009: The Bryan Public Library, West Point, Mississippi, presents the exhibit "Welty." For more information, call (662) 494-4872.

November 10, 2009 - January 2, 2010: The Triangle Cultural Center, Yazoo City, Mississippi, presents the exhibit "Welty." For more information, call (800) 381-0662.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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