On Mondays at noon, the Eudora Welty House & Garden will present weekly online book discussions of Welty's short story collection The Wide Net and Other Stories with Suzanne Marrs, Welty's friend and biographer. To receive the weekly emails and Zoom link, sign up for the Welty at Home newsletter here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/ry86X06/WeltyatHome.
MDAH education specialist and certified yoga instructor Jennifer Rose will lead free yoga classes in the Welty Garden. For more information, visit the Eudora Welty House & Garden or email info@eudoraweltyhouse.com.
The Eudora Welty House & Garden will celebrate Welty's birthday with refreshments and free house tours on April 13, from 9 a.m.–4 p.m. For more information, visit the Eudora Welty House & Garden Facebook page.
Between Friday, April 23, and Saturday, April 22, visitors to the Eudora Welty House & Garden can record, share, and write anonymous testimonies of their favorite Eudora Welty stories and more. For additional information, visit the Eudora Welty House & Garden Facebook page. Click here for more information on the Story Made Project.
The Eudora Welty House & Garden, in partnership with the Eudora Welty Foundation, will host its annual heirloom plant sale on Saturday, March 26, at 9 a.m. For more information, visit the Eudora Welty House & Garden Facebook page.
On Wednesday, March 23, at 11:30 a.m. the Eudora Welty House & Garden, in partnership with the Margaret Walker Center and Mississippi Humanities Council, will present a conversation on Eudora Welty and Margaret Walker Alexander's writings about civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Guest speakers for the event will be Robert Luckett, director of the Margaret Walker Center, and Ebony Lumumba, chair of the English department at Jackson State University.
MDAH education specialist Jennifer Rose will lead monthly spring-themed activities for children at the Eudora Welty House & Garden. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Eudora Welty House & Garden Facebook page.
On Thursday, February 24, at 11:30 a.m., Paige Mizell of Mizell's Camellia Hill Nursery will lead a guided camellia walk through the historic Welty Garden. Guests can purchase select varieties of heirloom camellias from Mizell's Camellia Hill Nursery following the tour while supplies last. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Eudora Welty House & Garden Facebook page.
The Eudora Welty House & Garden will host the virtual teachers workshop, "Purloined Letters, Petrified Men, and More: Welty, Poe, and the Confluences of Mystery Fiction" led by Michael Pickard, Millsaps College professor of English and creative writing, and Suzanne Marrs, Welty Foundation Scholar-in-Residence and Millsaps College emerita professor of English. Registration fee is $40 and participants will be given completion forms to send in to Millsaps College to receive their .5 CEU credit.
On Mondays at noon, the Eudora Welty House & Garden will present online book discussions of William Faulkner's 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, led by University of Mississippi professor Jay Watson and Welty's friend and biographer Suzanne Marrs. This event is free and open to the public. For more information and to register, visit the Eudora Welty House & Garden Facebook page or email info@eudoraweltyhouse.com.