Stage performances during the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, from October 16 and 17, 2009, featured Broadway veterans Joel Vig and Tammy Grimes.

A scene from the festive Gala at the F. Scott and Zelda Museum, Montgomery, that debuted Trailfest 2009 in Alabama on March 6, 2009.

A capacity crowd attends a Trailfest event about Southern Literature and writing in the parlor of Lyon Hall, Demopolis, Alabama.

Southern Literary Trail organizers pose on the porch of The Wren's Nest, the home of Trail writer Joel Chandler Harris in Atlanta, Georgia. The group planned the successful launch of the Trail and Trailfest 2009 in Georgia.

A scene from the Columbus, Mississippi, Pilgrimage of Homes, a special feature of Trailfest 2009.

Monroeville, AL, panelists and guests discuss local authors Truman Capote and Harper Lee.

Trail organizer Jimmy Thomas poses in front of B.B. King's Club Ebony in Indianola, MS, during Trailfest 2009.

A capacity crowd attends the Ralph Ellison Lecture, a Trailfest 2009 event, at Tuskegee University.

Photographic portraits of Lillian Hellman and her mother Julia Newhouse of Demopolis welcome visitors to Lyon Hall during the Marengo County Historical Society's Pilgrimage of Homes in Demopolis.

Dr. James Del Prince's floral creation captures "The Literary World of Tennessee Williams and Symbolic Floral Design," his topic for a Trailfest program at Mississippi University for Women on March 30, 2009.

The artwork of Zelda Fitzgerald on display for Trailfest 2009 events at the F. Scott & Zelda Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.

Friends of Mobile writer Eugene Walter read from his works during a dinner celebration at The Pillars Restaurant, March 21, 2009.

Writers and Demopolis natives Bert Hitchcock, Rusty Goldsmith and Billy Cobb speak about Lillian Hellman and local influences on their work in the parlor of Lyon Hall in Demopolis.

Panelists and guests celebrate native writer Lillian Smith in Clayton, Georgia, during Trailfest 2009.

The Hartselle Fine Arts Center greets Trail visitors.

Flowers greet the audience and guests for Trailfest 2009 events at the F. Scott and Zelda Museum, Montgomery, Alabama.

Walter Anderson's sketch of the Ancient Mariner: The work of Mississippi artist Walter Anderson was celebrated by the Oxford Conference for the Book, March 26 to 28, 2009. This sketch by Anderson depicts the Ancient Mariner.

A buffet setting during the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival in Clarksdale, October 16 and 17, 2009.