Chestina’s Garden: Camellias
Eudora’s mother Chestina was an ardent gardener who designed a true showcase of a yard for the Welty home. Eudora, after years of helping her mother with the garden, held her own impressive knowledge of the plants. When she decided in the 1980s that she would give her house to MDAH, she was able to call up from memory what needed to...
Driving Tour of Welty’s Jackson
Following Welty’s trail has to start in Jackson, where she was born and where she lived most of her life. People who don’t know better may think of her as a little old lady alone at her typewriter (and often that would have been the case), but Jackson is full of stories of Eudora out and about. She traveled extensively...
Look for the Lyric
Click here to download a classroom exercise that asks students to search for poetic lines in Welty’s fiction in order to arrange those lines into their own found poems. Based on my own found poem written as homage to Welty, this exercise means students will do a very close reading of the work and respond to it on an aesthetic level...
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Trailing Eudora is a tribute to Eudora Welty created by Sharon Gerald. It’s only an idea right now, but one day soon it will grow up to be an active site.
Come back to find out what happens as Sharon follows Eudora’s trail around her home state of Mississippi.
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