I always recommend starting with Welty’s memoir, One Writer’s Beginnings (1984), which provides a delightful look at the influences that taught her to listen, to see, and to find a voice. I’d love for you to join us! Find out more at Readers often ask me where to start reading Welty, and that’s a question I love to answer. In my upcoming American literature classes for 2022-23, I’ll be teaching One Writer’s Beginnings for both high schoolers and adults, as well as The Optimist’s Daughter for adults. She turned out to be Welty’s long-time next-door neighbor, who then became my dear friend. As we left the cemetery, a woman noticed the baby and struck up a conversation. My fourth son, a nursing infant at the time, traveled with me (and a babysitter) to Jackson. I did have the privilege of attending Eudora Welty’s funeral in 2001 and writing about it for Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, as well as writing several other articles about her, which are listed at the end of this post. An important reminder for everyone-not just artists. For the artist to be unwilling to move, mentally or spiritually or physically, out of the familiar is a sign that spiritual timidity or poverty or decay has come upon him for what is familiar will then have turned into all that is tyrannical” (“Place in Fiction”). to go out and see what is to be seen of the world.
This quote from Welty supplemented my confession: “Naturally, it is the very breath of life. A few years later I did get to meet her very briefly and have her sign one of my books in person, but I still regret letting fear hold me back from that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a real conversation with her (107).
He got to chat with her for half an hour-and I could have been there. I settled for sending a couple of my books with Dad for Miss Welty to sign. Only a few people would be there, and he said I could go with him, but I was afraid the crew wouldn’t want me tagging along. She was an alumna of the university where he worked, and he was going to a video interview with her. When I was just out of college and working a secretarial job while my husband was in seminary, my father had the opportunity to spend time with Eudora Welty, one of my favorite writers. These are two of the choices I’ve regretted most. Twice in my life I have let irrational fears hold me back. In fact, I wrote about her in my 2014 book, Flourish: Balance for Homeschool Moms, in the section on bidding farewell to fear: You have a couple of hours to brush up on your terms and get ready to show off your skills.Fellow Mississippian Eudora Welty (Ap– July 23, 2001) is one of my favorite authors.
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I didn’t do it here because it’s only 1 term, but for the others you will have to describe where you see the term (so I know you’re not just tossing it out there to see if it sticks!)Įasy enough in concept – but I can promise that most of the images will NOT be full facade shots. Jerkinhead gable ( my personal favorite term)Īnd just like that, you’d score 5 points. If we manage to stump you all on a building for 24 hours after it posts, the co-hosts will jointly share the points.Įudora Welty House, Jackson.Go ahead and share any additional tidbits you have about the buildings, but do NOT expect bonus points.JRGordon (with Booth Review assistance from Thomas Rosell) will make the decision on any “borderline” IDs made. New Way To Get a Point this NTP: Identify any Architectural Words of the Week that are featured in the image.YES – if you ID the building, location, architect and date in the first post, you get all 4 points!.The first person to give the date of the building gets 1 point.The first person to name the architect gets 1 point–there won’t always be a known architect, so this is not a guaranteed point.The first person to ID the building and its location gets 2 points.If there is an additional post, it will be at 3 pm There will be at least one post per day – at NOON.
Once again, I’m putting on my hosting attire for the game – but as it’s the Architectural Word of the Week Edition, I have a “behind the scenes co-host” in Thomas Rosell who helped with the selections. At the end of the week, we’ll know who takes the title in this edition. Last time, Thomas took home the honor of *Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire* with his knowledge of doors. It’s been a little while since we’ve done our little online gameshow Name This Place. Name This Place 10.0: Architectural Word of the Week Edition Home › Contest › Name This Place 10.0: Architectural Word of the Week Edition
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