“Back on Congress Street, when my father unlocked the door of our closed-up, waiting house, I rushed ahead into the airless hall and stormed up the stairs, pounding the carpet of each step with both hands ahead of me, and putting my face right down into the cloud of the dear dust of our long absence. I was welcoming ourselves back.” – from One Writer’s Beginnings, by Eudora Welty
After a lengthy restoration, Eudora Welty’s House and Garden will be open to visitors. “Reservations are required” tours will be conducted Wednesday through Friday, at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m. Call 601-353-7762 or send an e-mail to [email protected] for tour reservations. Visit the Eudora Welty Foundation website for additional information on Welty, the house, garden, tours, resources, and more.
“In our house on North Congress Street in Jackson, Mississippi, where I was born, the oldest of three children, in 1909, we grew up to the striking of clocks.” – from One Writer’s Beginnings, by Eudora Welty
“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or to be read to.” – from One Writer’s Beginnings, by Eudora Welty
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