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Demopolis Hartselle Mobile Monroeville Montgomery Tuskegee Guntersville Friday, March 13 to Saturday, March 14: Performances of Lillian Hellman's The Autumn Garden by the Demopolis Canebrake Players. Considered one of her best plays, Garden is set by Hellman in a "town on the Gulf of Mexico, a hundred miles from New Orleans."
Saturday, March 14: Waves Casting Shadows: The Literary Lure of Alabama's Gulf Coast. Following the matinee performance of The Autumn Garden, Alabama scholars and writers Bert Hitchcock and William Cobb, both Demopolis natives, join University of West Alabama professor and writer Alan Brown for a discussion of writers and literary subjects influenced by the Gulf Coast. Admission is required for the performance, but the discussion is free after the play. Saturday, March 14, 2009, 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 14 and 15: The Marengo County Historical Society Pilgrimage of Homes and Landmarks. Tour over a dozen 19th and early 20th Century homes of Demopolis featuring Bluff Hall (1832), Lyon Hall (1850), Gaineswood (1843) and the newly renovated Town Hall (1843). Town Hall was an Opera House operated by Lillian Hellman's grandfather Leonard Newhouse during the late 19th Century. Lyon Hall and Bluff Hall were inspirations for the plantation Lionnet in Hellman's dramatic masterpiece The Little Foxes, inspired by her Demopolis family. Saturday, March 14, 2009, 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. Sunday, March 15: Foxes in the Henhouse: Storytelling that starts at home. Scholars Bert Hitchcock, William Cobb and Alan Brown speak at Lyon Hall on South Main Avenue about the family dramas that compelled Hellman to write The Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest. They also speak about the impact of places such as Demopolis on the written arts. They are joined by The Reverend Rusty Goldsmith, another native of Demopolis, who delivered a series of famous sermons inspired by the town while he was Rector of St. Mary's-on-the-Highlands Episcopal Church in Birmingham. The free panel discussion will be featured as a special event during the Marengo County Historical Society Pilgrimage. (Tickets must be purchased for the Pilgrimage, but the panel discussion in Lyon Hall is free.) Sunday, March 15, 2009, 3 p.m.
Friday, March 27: Mud on the Stars: Literary Circles Converge. Huie biographer Carol Puckett joins other local speakers and scholars to conclude Hartselle's "Big Read" of Huie's Mud on the Stars at Hartselle's Fine Arts Center. Click here for a reading guide to Mud on the Stars. Friday, March 27, 2009, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, March 28: I'm in the Truth Business. Huie scholars Don Noble (host of Alabama Public Television's BOOKMARK series), Carol Puckett and Randy Sparkman present a panel discussion at the Fine Arts Center after a screening of the documentary The Truth Business. Saturday, March 28, 2009, 10:00 a.m. Saturday, March 28: William Bradford Huie in Hollywood. Huie scholar Steve Whitton presents a lecture at the Fine Arts Center on Saturday afternoon about the movies made from William Bradford Huie's novels such as The Americanization of Emily and The Revolt of Mamie Stover.
Saturday, March 28: Wayne Flynt Presents the Alabama of William Bradford Huie. Noted Alabama scholar and historian Wayne Flynt delivers a lecture on Saturday evening at the Fine Arts Center about William Bradford Huie and the dramatic times in which he wrote: an Alabama era from TVA to the Civil Rights Movement. Saturday, March 28, 2009, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, March 28, and Sunday, March 29: Hartselle Walking and Driving Tours to include the William Bradford Huie Library; the author's home on Barkley Street; the home of Huie's parents; the Huie burial site; the Hartselle Depot, and other locations of interest. This is a self-guided tour with maps available at the William Bradford Huie Library and the Hartselle Welcome Center at the historic Train Depot. Saturday and Sunday, March 28 and 29,
2009.
Saturday, March 28, 2009 MONROEVILLE: Old Courthouse Museum, Downtown Square 9:00 - 10:00 - Registration, Self-Guided Tour of Exhibits 10:00 - 11:30 - Growing up with Harper Lee and Truman Capote. Monroeville natives who knew Alabama's (possibly America's) most famous pair of childhood friends share their memories of the two writers. The panelists, who were classmates of Harper Lee and Truman Capote, share their stories and photos of Monroeville in the 1930s. They also share their memories of what it was like to grow up with the two famed novelists in Alabama's Literary Capital. The day's panels will be conducted in the famous courtroom of the Old Monroe County Courthouse. 11:30 - 12:15 - Maycomb County Picnic. Enjoy an old fashioned picnic on
12:30 - 2:00 - Moments of Courage, Against the Odds. African American citizens of Monroeville discuss the race relations in the 1930s that served as a basis for the conflicts in Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird. 2:00 - 4:00 - Be sure to shop the Museum Gift Shop to take home one of a kind literary souvenirs referencing both Lee and Capote.
Saturday, March 7: The Fitzgeralds’ Montgomery, Wars Civil and Great. Fitzgerald scholars and contemporary writers Kirk Curnutt (Baby, Let’s Make a Baby) and James Meredith speak about the influence of Montgomery and its history on the lives and work of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald in the home that served as the setting for her dust cover photo of her novel Save Me the Waltz. The Fitzgerald House is the only museum that celebrates America's premiere Jazz Age couple. Saturday, March 7, 2009, 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 18: The Annual Ralph Ellison Lecture. Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey presents the 2009 Ralph Ellison Lecture at Tuskegee University's Kellogg Conference Center at 3:00 p.m. The annual lecture recognizes Ellison's contributions to American letters and invokes the spirit of intellectual rigor and creativity that his achievements exemplify. The lectures are organized by the Department of English and the Center for Continuing Education at Tuskegee University. Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 3 p.m. Sunday, February 15, to Sunday, March 29: The William Bradford Huie Exhibit, "Manuscript to Movie," at the Guntersville Museum and Guntersville Public Library. The Museum will screen the movies based upon Huie's books with a focus on the writer's role in the events of his time: the national and international impact of TVA, World War II, and the Civil Rights Movement. Huie lived the last years of his life in Guntersville, where he died. The exhibit to accompany the movies opens on Sunday, February 15, followed by a special reception at the Museum from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 1, 2009, the opening day of the Trailfest celebration. Visit the Museum's website, www.guntersvillemuseum@guntersvilleal.org, for hours and details or call 256.571.7597. The following films will be presented at 7 p.m. in the Museum on the dates listed: February 17: "The Americanization of
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Friday, March 13, 2009, 7 p.m.
Admission: $20.00 per person; $10 for children under 12.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 27 to
29: William Bradford Huie: At Home in the Tennessee Valley.
A weekend celebration of William Bradford Huie, his achievements and
his connection to Hartselle.
Saturday,
March 28, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
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