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Dinner Theatre at the Terry Depot, Terry, MS: Friends of Terry present Jo Ann Robinson in a one woman performance of "Why I Live at the P.O." sponsored by the Mississippi Arts Commission and Friends of Terry. February 25, 26, 27, 2010. The doors open at 5:30 PM and dinner is served at 6:00 PM; call Betty Davis for reservations at 601-878-5980.
September 26, - January 3, 2010: Merriment on the Midway: Eudora Welty's State Fair Mural and Photographs. Premiere of Welty's State Fair painting and opening of Welty's State Fair photographs at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi. Click here for more information.
November 10, 2009 - January 2, 2010: The Triangle Cultural Center, Yazoo City, Mississippi, presents the exhibit "Welty." For more information, call (800) 381-0662.
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.
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