William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, on Jefferson Street in New Albany, Mississippi. Some of his notable awards were the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, the 1955 and 1963 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction and the 1951 and 1955 National Book Awards. New Albany recognizes the significance of being the birthplace of one of the most celebrated writers in American Literature generally and Southern Literature specifically and as a result our mayor will proclaim the month of September as William Faulkner Month.
Union County Heritage Museum
Photography Exhibit –
Take a Hike in Yoknapatawpha
Cast of Blues Exhibit Program
Artist Sharon McConnell-Dickerson talks about the 18-year process of making casts of the world’s greatest blues artists and the casting of the face of well known blues artist and songwriter Sam Mosley
Included in exhibit are 40 resin life-cast faces of Mississippi’s greatest blues musicians with biographies, audio clips and video clips and a resin sculpture of Johnny Winter’s hands.
Live Blues Music
Union County Heritage Museum
Light Lunch – Free Event
Speaker: Naturalist and Artist Robin Whitfield
“The Beauty of the Swamp”
Workshop to follow using objects and pigments found in the Mississippi Hills to create works of art.
Union County Library
Light Lunch – Free Event
Speaker: TBA
Union County Heritage Museum, William Faulkner Library & William Faulkner Literary Garden
Visiting Poet
Union County Library
Light Lunch – Free Event
Speaker: TBA
Union County Heritage Museum
Light Lunch – Free Event
Speaker: TBA
First Methodist Church: Noon
Speaker: Joe Crespino, Author of Atticus Finch
Tickets: $15
Union County Heritage Museum: TBA
Union County Library
Light Lunch – Free Event
Speaker: TBA
Storytelling Festival
Union County Heritage Museum
Hands-On History – Family Event
