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.
A brick wall is not the end of the line for family research. Join professional genealogist Kim Richardson on Saturday, April 30, at 10 a.m. for Break through Brick Walls, a Zoom presentation about the most common oversights in genealogy research and how to overcome the supposed dead-end search for a particularly hard to find ancestor. Registration is free and space is limited. Click here to register online.
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.
Join us on Saturday, December 4, and Saturday, December 11, for the 36th Social Studies Teachers Workshop. Sessions include presentations from the Two Mississippi Museums, National History Day, and the Mississippi Museum of Art. This year’s virtual workshop is $10, and free CEUs can be earned.
On Mondays at noon CST, the Eudora Welty House & Garden will present online book discussions of Welty's novel Delta Wedding led by Millsaps College professor Suzanne Marrs as part of its #WeltyatHome virtual book club program. This event is free and open to the public. For more information and to register, email info@eudoraweltyhouse.com.
Curious about tracing your lost family history, but don’t know how or where to start? Join us for our virtual Beginning Genealogy workshop with MDAH director of library services Ally Mellon on Saturday, August 28, at 10 a.m. Participants will learn how to begin genealogical research and use public resources available in the MDAH archival collections. *UPDATE: Registration for this event is now full.
On Mondays, at noon CST, the Eudora Welty House & Garden will host live book discussions of selected poetry and prose by former Mississippi Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as part of its #WeltyatHome virtual book club program.
Join us virtually for the first edition of our new civil rights series, Direct Action with Hezekiah Watkins, on Thursday, July 22. Guest speaker and civil rights veteran Brenda Travis will discuss her involvement during the McComb Student Movement as a teenager when she and other fellow students staged the Burglund High School walkout in protest against racial discrimination. The program will stream live from the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Facebook page.
Explore the fabled history of the Free State of Jones in this edition of the #ManyStories Series at the Two Mississippi Museums on Thursday, June 3, at 6 p.m.