... and cities out of "un-populated" or "uncivilized&a... more ... and cities out of "un-populated" or "uncivilized" territory (in this line of thinking, Native Americans are part ... All these critics, I contend, affirm the possibility of the scenario Elli-son and the other ... In each novel a multiplicity of voices refutes the ideology of domination, insisting on the ...
129 tours. This was a slight uptick from the previous year. We had a significant increase in the ... more 129 tours. This was a slight uptick from the previous year. We had a significant increase in the number of visitors who came not for tours, but for on-site programs or special events. We may see a growing trend where visitation for on-site programs/events is increasing in proportion to those who come to the EWHG for tours. In 2015, 35% of visitation was for on-site events. That number increased to 49.5% in 2016. This may be a reasonable trend as the EWHG moves into its second decade. It may also signal the need for increased state, regional, and/or national promotion of the EWHG to increase tour-driven visitation.
147 New Orleans and New York City. Ten of these photographs were installed in the Education and V... more 147 New Orleans and New York City. Ten of these photographs were installed in the Education and Visitors Center in mid-January. Due to space limitations, the other half will go up in June. Other events planned for the anniversary week include the 2016 Scholastic Awards ceremony with author Shalanda Stanley serving as the keynote speaker; a day welcoming students from Jackson’s post-secondary educational institutions; a “pop-up” art show by local artists featuring renditions of Welty, her fictional characters and/or or her home and garden; and our annual plant sale with Welty garden conservator Susan Haltom. Plants for sale will have been propagated in the Welty garden. The week will conclude Friday evening, April 15, with an evening family picnic, live music, and face painting in the Camellia Room. For more information, please see our calendar under “Events” on our website at www.eudoraweltyhouse.com. Please do check out our new and improved website. Its revision was a multi-year endeavor that finally came to fruition early last summer. My thanks to Susan Haltom, Mary Alice White, Suzanne Marrs, and Jason Branson (former web-designer at MDAH) for their many contributions to this milestone! Finally, on a quantitative note, the EWH&G welcomed over 5,700 visitors during 2015, an increase of over 9% from 2014 and a 40% increase since 2011. Just under 1,000 of those were students (17%) and just over 2,000 (35%) came not for tours but for on-site events and programs. Offsite programs and outreach totaled 22,346 for a combined onand off-site reach of 28,082.
Welty's 1954 novella is narrated by Edna Earle Ponder, the owner of the Beulah Hotel in Clay,... more Welty's 1954 novella is narrated by Edna Earle Ponder, the owner of the Beulah Hotel in Clay, Mississippi, who is determined that her story be heard. As Welty has noted elsewhere, Edna Earle "has someone by the lapels who's come in to register at the hotel and can't get away, you know, like the wedding guest" (Wheatley 132). Edna Earle presses this unwilling stranger into attentive service, pausing once to suggest, "And listen: if you read, you'll put your eyes out. Let's just talk" (341). Edna Earle describes her mentally deficient Uncle Daniel, who exasperates his family by giving away money and property and marrying "beneath" him. What else does her story reveal? Scholars have written less on The Ponder Heart than on any of Welty's other fiction, but it is likely to be read more widely thanks to the 2001 broadcast of a Masterpiece Theatre film based on the book (Thurman). To understand more of Edna Earle's story, and to savor more of the nuances in Welty's sympathetic and hilarious characterization, readers should consider the changes that have occurred in rural Mississippi during Edna Earle's lifetime. Several critics have noted that Welty's novel registers changes in Mississippi culture, but most suggest that this change is for the worse. Michael Kreyling writes that "the time in which Edna Earle narrates the story is the heyday of the superhighway.… The Peacocks themselves are the prolific hordes of coming change, just as Edna Earle is the bathed, neat, and proper survivor of the old regime" (115-16). To evaluate Edna Earle and the changes she laments, readers should place the novel in time. The book's most recent events occurred about 1952. Uncle Daniel's first mar- riage, according to testimony given during his trial, lasted two months in 1944, and his second marriage lasted almost six years. Welty has set the novel in approximately the same moment in which she was writing it as a short story in 1952 and has made Edna Earle about her own age (43 in 1952). Her business, the Beulah Hotel, has far fewer customers than it once did, which is why her grandfather did not object when Uncle Daniel gave the hotel away to his niece. As Edna Earle explains, the town of Clay had "gone down so … with the wrong element going spang through the middle of town at ninety miles an hour on the new highway" (342). Readers will understand the novel better if they are aware that living conditions in Mississippi have changed more in Edna Earle's lifetime than
129 tours. This was a slight uptick from the previous year. We had a significant increase in the ... more 129 tours. This was a slight uptick from the previous year. We had a significant increase in the number of visitors who came not for tours, but for on-site programs or special events. We may see a growing trend where visitation for on-site programs/events is increasing in proportion to those who come to the EWHG for tours. In 2015, 35% of visitation was for on-site events. That number increased to 49.5% in 2016. This may be a reasonable trend as the EWHG moves into its second decade. It may also signal the need for increased state, regional, and/or national promotion of the EWHG to increase tour-driven visitation.
147 New Orleans and New York City. Ten of these photographs were installed in the Education and V... more 147 New Orleans and New York City. Ten of these photographs were installed in the Education and Visitors Center in mid-January. Due to space limitations, the other half will go up in June. Other events planned for the anniversary week include the 2016 Scholastic Awards ceremony with author Shalanda Stanley serving as the keynote speaker; a day welcoming students from Jackson’s post-secondary educational institutions; a “pop-up” art show by local artists featuring renditions of Welty, her fictional characters and/or or her home and garden; and our annual plant sale with Welty garden conservator Susan Haltom. Plants for sale will have been propagated in the Welty garden. The week will conclude Friday evening, April 15, with an evening family picnic, live music, and face painting in the Camellia Room. For more information, please see our calendar under “Events” on our website at www.eudoraweltyhouse.com. Please do check out our new and improved website. Its revision was a multi-year endeavor that finally came to fruition early last summer. My thanks to Susan Haltom, Mary Alice White, Suzanne Marrs, and Jason Branson (former web-designer at MDAH) for their many contributions to this milestone! Finally, on a quantitative note, the EWH&G welcomed over 5,700 visitors during 2015, an increase of over 9% from 2014 and a 40% increase since 2011. Just under 1,000 of those were students (17%) and just over 2,000 (35%) came not for tours but for on-site events and programs. Offsite programs and outreach totaled 22,346 for a combined onand off-site reach of 28,082.
... and cities out of "un-populated" or "uncivilized&a... more ... and cities out of "un-populated" or "uncivilized" territory (in this line of thinking, Native Americans are part ... All these critics, I contend, affirm the possibility of the scenario Elli-son and the other ... In each novel a multiplicity of voices refutes the ideology of domination, insisting on the ...
129 tours. This was a slight uptick from the previous year. We had a significant increase in the ... more 129 tours. This was a slight uptick from the previous year. We had a significant increase in the number of visitors who came not for tours, but for on-site programs or special events. We may see a growing trend where visitation for on-site programs/events is increasing in proportion to those who come to the EWHG for tours. In 2015, 35% of visitation was for on-site events. That number increased to 49.5% in 2016. This may be a reasonable trend as the EWHG moves into its second decade. It may also signal the need for increased state, regional, and/or national promotion of the EWHG to increase tour-driven visitation.
147 New Orleans and New York City. Ten of these photographs were installed in the Education and V... more 147 New Orleans and New York City. Ten of these photographs were installed in the Education and Visitors Center in mid-January. Due to space limitations, the other half will go up in June. Other events planned for the anniversary week include the 2016 Scholastic Awards ceremony with author Shalanda Stanley serving as the keynote speaker; a day welcoming students from Jackson’s post-secondary educational institutions; a “pop-up” art show by local artists featuring renditions of Welty, her fictional characters and/or or her home and garden; and our annual plant sale with Welty garden conservator Susan Haltom. Plants for sale will have been propagated in the Welty garden. The week will conclude Friday evening, April 15, with an evening family picnic, live music, and face painting in the Camellia Room. For more information, please see our calendar under “Events” on our website at www.eudoraweltyhouse.com. Please do check out our new and improved website. Its revision was a multi-year endeavor that finally came to fruition early last summer. My thanks to Susan Haltom, Mary Alice White, Suzanne Marrs, and Jason Branson (former web-designer at MDAH) for their many contributions to this milestone! Finally, on a quantitative note, the EWH&G welcomed over 5,700 visitors during 2015, an increase of over 9% from 2014 and a 40% increase since 2011. Just under 1,000 of those were students (17%) and just over 2,000 (35%) came not for tours but for on-site events and programs. Offsite programs and outreach totaled 22,346 for a combined onand off-site reach of 28,082.
Welty's 1954 novella is narrated by Edna Earle Ponder, the owner of the Beulah Hotel in Clay,... more Welty's 1954 novella is narrated by Edna Earle Ponder, the owner of the Beulah Hotel in Clay, Mississippi, who is determined that her story be heard. As Welty has noted elsewhere, Edna Earle "has someone by the lapels who's come in to register at the hotel and can't get away, you know, like the wedding guest" (Wheatley 132). Edna Earle presses this unwilling stranger into attentive service, pausing once to suggest, "And listen: if you read, you'll put your eyes out. Let's just talk" (341). Edna Earle describes her mentally deficient Uncle Daniel, who exasperates his family by giving away money and property and marrying "beneath" him. What else does her story reveal? Scholars have written less on The Ponder Heart than on any of Welty's other fiction, but it is likely to be read more widely thanks to the 2001 broadcast of a Masterpiece Theatre film based on the book (Thurman). To understand more of Edna Earle's story, and to savor more of the nuances in Welty's sympathetic and hilarious characterization, readers should consider the changes that have occurred in rural Mississippi during Edna Earle's lifetime. Several critics have noted that Welty's novel registers changes in Mississippi culture, but most suggest that this change is for the worse. Michael Kreyling writes that "the time in which Edna Earle narrates the story is the heyday of the superhighway.… The Peacocks themselves are the prolific hordes of coming change, just as Edna Earle is the bathed, neat, and proper survivor of the old regime" (115-16). To evaluate Edna Earle and the changes she laments, readers should place the novel in time. The book's most recent events occurred about 1952. Uncle Daniel's first mar- riage, according to testimony given during his trial, lasted two months in 1944, and his second marriage lasted almost six years. Welty has set the novel in approximately the same moment in which she was writing it as a short story in 1952 and has made Edna Earle about her own age (43 in 1952). Her business, the Beulah Hotel, has far fewer customers than it once did, which is why her grandfather did not object when Uncle Daniel gave the hotel away to his niece. As Edna Earle explains, the town of Clay had "gone down so … with the wrong element going spang through the middle of town at ninety miles an hour on the new highway" (342). Readers will understand the novel better if they are aware that living conditions in Mississippi have changed more in Edna Earle's lifetime than
129 tours. This was a slight uptick from the previous year. We had a significant increase in the ... more 129 tours. This was a slight uptick from the previous year. We had a significant increase in the number of visitors who came not for tours, but for on-site programs or special events. We may see a growing trend where visitation for on-site programs/events is increasing in proportion to those who come to the EWHG for tours. In 2015, 35% of visitation was for on-site events. That number increased to 49.5% in 2016. This may be a reasonable trend as the EWHG moves into its second decade. It may also signal the need for increased state, regional, and/or national promotion of the EWHG to increase tour-driven visitation.
147 New Orleans and New York City. Ten of these photographs were installed in the Education and V... more 147 New Orleans and New York City. Ten of these photographs were installed in the Education and Visitors Center in mid-January. Due to space limitations, the other half will go up in June. Other events planned for the anniversary week include the 2016 Scholastic Awards ceremony with author Shalanda Stanley serving as the keynote speaker; a day welcoming students from Jackson’s post-secondary educational institutions; a “pop-up” art show by local artists featuring renditions of Welty, her fictional characters and/or or her home and garden; and our annual plant sale with Welty garden conservator Susan Haltom. Plants for sale will have been propagated in the Welty garden. The week will conclude Friday evening, April 15, with an evening family picnic, live music, and face painting in the Camellia Room. For more information, please see our calendar under “Events” on our website at www.eudoraweltyhouse.com. Please do check out our new and improved website. Its revision was a multi-year endeavor that finally came to fruition early last summer. My thanks to Susan Haltom, Mary Alice White, Suzanne Marrs, and Jason Branson (former web-designer at MDAH) for their many contributions to this milestone! Finally, on a quantitative note, the EWH&G welcomed over 5,700 visitors during 2015, an increase of over 9% from 2014 and a 40% increase since 2011. Just under 1,000 of those were students (17%) and just over 2,000 (35%) came not for tours but for on-site events and programs. Offsite programs and outreach totaled 22,346 for a combined onand off-site reach of 28,082.
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