Actress Sherrye Williams portrays Amanda Wingfield from "The Glass Menagerie" in one of the porch plays during The Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival on October 17, 2009, in Southern Literary Trail town Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Poet Natasha Trethewey (left) and Trailfest organizer Dr. Loretta Burns at the Ralph Ellison Lecture, Tuskegee University, on March 18, 2009.

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

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 portrait of Zelda Fitzgerald is displayed at the Fitzgerald House Museum in Montgomery for Trailfest 2009.

An audience gathers on the lawn of the F. Scott and Zelda Museum and House, Montgomery, for a talk about the Jazz Age couple by Fitzgerald scholars Kirk Curnutt and James Meredith.

During Trailfest, the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta offered free admission to anyone who said "Southern Literary Trail" at the ticket booth.

Trailfest organizers Bruce Gentry, Craig Amason, Nancy Smith Fichter and Robert Fichter pose in the dining room of Andalusia Farm, the Milledgeville, Georgia, home of Flannery O'Connor.

A festive crowd in Mobile, AL, attends the Eugene Walter Dinner at The Pillars Restaurant, March 21, 2009.

Trailfest guests enjoy a reception for writers Alan Brown, Bert Hitchcock, Billy Cobb and Rusty Goldsmith after their talk in Lyon Hall, Demopolis, Alabama.

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.

From the floral arrangements celebrating Tennessee Williams by Mississippi Professor James Del Ponce at MUW, Columbus.

Elyzabeth Wilder's new southern play The Furniture of Home was presented by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, during Trailfest 2009.

A display of posters from movies based upon books of William Bradford Huie in Hartselle, AL.

On every Saturday during Trailfest, Wren's Nest Ramblers told the stories of Uncle Remus on the grounds of the house.

Panelists in Monroeville discuss the local racial history within To Kill a Mockingbird.

New Orleans author Kenneth Holditch
talks about his friend Tennessee
Williams during a Delta Literary Tour
stop at the Cutrer Mansion in
Clarksdale, MS.

Trail writers Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty and William Faulkner are inducted into the Meridian, Ms., Walk of Fame, June 2, 2010.

The Sweet Bird of Youth cast bows for a standing ovation during the Tennessee Williams Tribute in Columbus, Ms., September 2010.

On June 15, 2009, the Southern Literary Trail hosted an audience reception after a screening of The Little Foxes in the classic Egyptian Theatre, home to the American Cinematheque on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles.

A porch play is presented in Clarksdale, Ms., during the October 2010 Tennessee Williams Festival.