Jackson’s Eudora Welty Library To Be Demolished For Green Space Near Museums
Jackson’s Eudora Welty Library will be demolished to make way for a new green space near two history museums in Mississippi’s capital city.
Jackson’s Eudora Welty Library will be demolished to make way for a new green space near two history museums in Mississippi’s capital city.
On a summer afternoon in 2001, Jackson-born artist Felandus Thames stepped into the open atrium of the older building at the Mississippi Museum of Art,
Rob Cooper, a Jackson-based stained-glass artist, received a commission from award-winning British novelist and comic-book writer Neil Gaiman to create a window for the latter’s London home.
Long-time newspaper editor Bonny Parham had a consistent presence and a personal stake in her community. Amory, Miss., was her home, and she documented its happenings for 40 years, from the 1960s to 2000. The perfectionist had to do good work not only for the newspaper’s survival but also because she needed the meager small-town newspaper salary for her and her son to eat and have a roof over their heads. Her photos live past her and now document the town through her eyes.
During his remarkable 75 years of public service, Gov. William Winter linked education with economic development in the nation’s poorest state, observing, “The road out of the poor house runs past the school house.”
The professional theater’s new Solo Show Series finds a way, highlighting veteran New Stage actors and Mississippi stories, still selling tickets and staying mindful of pandemic-related precautions.
In the creepy and cavernous old building, Michael Farris Smith sits on a stool and shares a haunting passage from “Blackwood.” The virtual reading on
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