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Piedmont Technical College Library Celebrates Eudora Welty. Exhibition of photographs during the Great Depression.

Submitted by: Cindy Davies on Sep 21, 2009 at 7:35 pm Tagged with: Cultural Programs, Great Depression, Library Programs Source: Piedmont Technical College Library

Beginning October 6, the Piedmont Technical College Library will be celebrating Eudora Welty in Focus. As a part of the college’s second annual One Book, One College series, the library will host weekly programs addressing the themes of Welty’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Optimist’s Daughter. All members of the community are encouraged to read the book and attend the programs.

Concurrently, the library will host the photography exhibit “Welty.” This collection of 14 photographs was selected from Welty’s negatives on file at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Welty took the photographs during the Great Depression as she traveled across Mississippi, her native state, as a publicist for the WPA. The use of excerpts from Welty’s fiction makes this a literary, as well as a photographic, exhibition.

Eudora Welty was a world-renowned author who had a keen eye for the particular customs and manners of the American South while also capturing the universal conditions of our shared humanity. This year marks the centennial of Welty’s birth. She died in 2001 at the age of 92.

The public is cordially invited to attend all weekly events, beginning with an opening reception October 6 at 5 p.m., and the “Welty” exhibit, which will show at the Piedmont Technical College library from October 6 to October 30. Please call the library at (864) 941-8441 for more information.

“Welty” is an exhibit produced by the Museum of Mississippi History, a division of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.