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Click on a town below for Trailfest event information in that area. TRAILFEST IN MARCH 2009 is the debut celebration of the Southern Literary Trail in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. Many programs are FREE OF CHARGE due to generous support by the Georgia Humanities Council and the participating museums. The Southern Literary Trail in Georgia is also sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book. Atlanta
Clayton
Columbus
Milledgeville
Moreland
Savannah
At The Wren's Nest:
Saturdays in March: March 7, 14, 21, and
28, 2009. March 19 - Harris expert Bruce Bickley speaks about the writer. Florida State University Professor Bruce Bickley will be giving a talk on Joel Chandler Harris. Professor Bickley is the authority on Joel Chandler Harris, and his talk is in partnership with the Georgia Center for the Book. Thursday, March 19, 2009, 7:15 p.m.
FREE ADMISSION TO THE MARGARET MITCHELL HOUSE AND GWTW MOVIE MUSEUM WILL BE PROVIDED ANYONE DURING MARCH 2009 WHO MENTIONS "SOUTHERN LITERARY TRAIL" AT THE TICKET DESK. March 1 to March 31: Ongoing Guided Tours of the Margaret Mitchell House and GWTW Movie Museum. Daily tours are available of the home where Margaret Mitchell wrote the epic Southern novel, Gone With the Wind, and an attached museum celebrates the 1939 movie that starred Clark Gable as Rhett and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett. Open Daily. Monday, March 2, 2009: Biographer Brad Gooch, author of “Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor,” discusses his new book at The Literary Center at the Margaret Mitchell House. This is the first major biography of one of the greatest writers of the South. O’Connor is also one of the Georgia writers celebrated by the Southern Literary Trail.
Sunday, March 8, 2009: Living historian and scholar Debra Conner performs as Margaret Mitchell. Ms. Conner as Margaret Mitchell compellingly describes how her fascination with stories of the Old South led her to write “Gone With the Wind,” which eventually turned her life upside down. Conner’s performance piece also offers fascinating insights into the making of the film. Time: 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, 2009: Living historian and scholar Debra Conner performs as Zelda Fitzgerald. Ms. Conner appears in her remarkable one-woman show as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, the Montgomery, Alabama native and another writer celebrated on the Trail. This special show is being presented as part of The Literary Center’s Big Read campaign of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal Jazz Age novel “The Great Gatsby.” 6:00 p.m. reception March 2009, date and time, TBA: Georgia’s Poetry Out Loud Competition. The Literary Center at the Margaret Mitchell House and GWTW Movie Museum presents the competition in collaboration with the Georgia Council for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Specific date and times, TBA. Saturday, March 14, and Sunday, March 15: A Weekend Celebration of the Life and work of Lillian E. Smith. The Lillian E. Smith Foundation presents documentaries, panel discussions and tours that examine the life and writing of the courageous author of Strange Fruit and Killers of the Dream.
Saturday, March 14, 2009, 9 a.m. Saturday, March 14: What would Lillian Smith think about...? Two contemporary and award winning writers explore Lillian Smith's likely attitudes toward life in the current U.S.A. The featured panelists and commentators are Rose Gladney, editor of the honored How am I to be Heard: Letters of Lillian E. Smith, and Will Brantley, author of Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir, winner of the 1992 Eudora Welty Prize. A question and answer session with the audience follows the panel presentation. Saturday, March 14, 2009, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 14: Guided Tours of the Lillian E. Smith Center and Homesite. The tour includes the writer's home, her gravesite and cottages that remain from the Laurel Falls Camp which she directed. The documentary films Miss Smith of Georgia and Miss Lil’s Camp will also be repeated at the writer's home at 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 14.
Sunday, March 15: Guided Tours of the Lillian E. Smith Center and Homesite, along with screenings of Miss Smith of Georgia and Miss Lil’s Camp. The tours begin at 10 a.m. and the documentaries are screened at 11 a.m. Sunday, March 15, 2009, at 10 a.m. and 11
a.m.
Friday, March 27, 2009: Tours of the Carson McCullers Childhood Home. The home is opened for tours at 1519 Stark Avenue. Born on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Lula Carson Smith was the daughter of Marguerite and Lamar Smith, a local jewelry store owner. She married James Reeves McCullers, Jr., who was stationed at nearby Fort Benning, in 1937. The tours will be repeated on Saturday, March 28, and Sunday, March 29, from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, March 27,
28, & 29, 2009, 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, March 27: Screening of “Reflections in a Golden Eye.” The film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando with direction by John Huston. Reflections in a Golden Eye was McCullers' second book, first published in Harper’s Bazaar, and featured a peacetime setting on an army base much like Ft. Benning. Friday, March 27, 2009, 7 p.m. Saturday, March 28: Screening of "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." Alan Arkin received an Oscar nomination for his work in the film based upon the writer's first novel, set in a southern town resembling Columbus. The deafness of Arkin's character does not hinder him from hearing the despair within the lives of the people who surround him. The film's score is composed by Dave Grusin. According to Director Robert Ellis Miller, he and Arkin learned of Carson McCullers’ death on September 29, 1967, on the car radio as they drove to the first day of shooting in Selma, Alabama. Saturday, March 28, 2009, 2 p.m. Saturday, March 28: Screening of "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." The story is set in a small southern town and tells of jealousy and obsession in a triangular love relationship. The film stars Oscar winners Vanessa Redgrave and Rod Steiger. A brand new short film adaptation of McCullers’ story “Wunderkind” will also be presented by its director Lauren Rosen of New York. Ms. Rosen will discuss her film with the Saturday night audience.
Sunday, March 29: Screening of "The Member of the Wedding." Julie Harris received an Oscar nomination for her work in the role of the small town tomboy "Frankie" Addams, but the film's most poignant portrayal may be delivered by the great Ethel Waters. Sunday, March 29, 2009, 2 p.m. January 29th to May 10th, 2009: "Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm" photography exhibit by Nancy Marshall. Nancy Marshall, professor emerita Visual Arts Program at Emory University (1988-2005), has had her work widely displayed. Many of her pieces can be found in permanent collections including the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Georgia, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Several of "Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm" photographs were also exhibited at Emory University in conjunction with "The Prophet's Country: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Flannery O'Connor" in 2007. The photographs in the exhibit capture the changing seasons at Andalusia Farm, the writer's home in Milledgeville. Open daily. Monday, March 9: Evelyn White speaks about Alice Walker. Evelyn C. White, the official biographer of Alice Walker, will give a lecture, introduce a film screening and visit two classes on the GCSU campus. Her lecture accompanies a screening of the film Visions of the Spirit: A Portrait of Alice Walker by Elena Featherston. The biographer's lecture is entitled, I Know What Money is For: Alice Walker and the Aftermath of "The Color Purple." Monday, March 9, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10: Poetry Reading by Andrea Hollander Budy. Celebrated poet Andrea Hollander Budy reads her poetry and talks about Milledgeville writer Flannery O'Connor. The talk is entitled Keeping Our Mouths Shut: A Poet Under the Influence. Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17: Authors Pete Dexter and Douglas Robillard, Jr., Present Screening of Paris Trout and Discuss the O’Connor-Dexter Connection. Fiction writer Pete Dexter received the National Book Award for his novel Paris Trout. He is joined by scholar Douglas Robillard, Jr., to introduce a screening of the film version of the novel in the A & S Auditorium at 2:30 p.m. Currently writing a book about his hometown experiences, Dexter grew up in Milledgeville. At 7:00 p.m., in A&S Auditorium, Dexter and Robillard will also discuss connections between Dexter's work and the fiction of Flannery O'Connor in a joint lecture entitled, Rashomon in Milledgeville: Flannery O'Connor and Pete Dexter on the Stembridge Murders. Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 2:30 p.m. and 7
p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays in March 2009: Tours of the Erskine Caldwell Birthplace and Museum. Visitors to Moreland can tour the birthplace of the author of Tobacco Road, God’s Little Acre, and In Search of Bisco. Vintage photos of the by Erskine Caldwell family and from the collection of his granddaughter Becky Gooding Laskody will be on exhibit in the Museum. Tuesday - Saturday - 11:00 a.m. - 3:00
p.m. Thursday, February 26: Launch of "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor" featuring author Brad Gooch. On Thursday evening, February 26, author Brad Gooch will be in Savannah to launch his biography Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor from Little, Brown publishers. The event, a talk at 7 p.m. followed by a reception, is sponsored by the O'Connor Childhood Home, the Telfair Museum of Art and Little, Brown. The reception includes a book-signing by Mr. Gooch, a professor of English at William Paterson University. He received fellowships from Guggenheim and the NEH for his research on O'Connor. February 26, 2009, 7 p.m. March 2009: Continuing Tours of Flannery O’Connor’s childhood home. Guided tours are available of the writer's Childhood Home, where she spent her first thirteen years. The only Depression Era house museum in Savannah, the Home reopened only a year ago after extensive renovations. Daily, except Thursdays: 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 8: The Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home will sponsor a showing of “The Displaced Person,” followed by a discussion led by Professor Carl Weeks. Professor Weeks teaches composition and literature at Armstrong Atlantic State University and is the author of Savannah in the Time of Peter Tondee. “The Displaced Person” tells the story of a widow in the 1940’s who takes in a Polish refugee family to help her run her farm. Henry Fonda introduces this fine adaptation of O’Connor’s story, filmed in 1977, and a first rate cast includes John Houseman and a young Samuel L. Jackson.
Wednesday, March 25: A Celebration of Flannery O'Connor’s Birthday. The annual celebration takes place in one of Savannah's historic homes. The event features wine, music, food and a silent auction. It is a ticketed event. Complete details will be posted on this website. Wednesday, March 25, 2009, time TBA. |
At the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum:
Monday,
March 2, 2009
990 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309
Saturday, March 14: "Miss Smith of
Georgia" and "Miss Lil’s Camp."
Two documentary films about
Lillian Smith and her camp in Clayton are presented with coffee and
conversation about the author to follow.
Saturday, March 14, 2009, at 2 p.m. and
4:30 p.m.
March 27 to March 29: The Carson McCullers
Film Festival. The four novels of Carson McCullers that
have been made into films will be screened at the Columbus Public
Library with commentaries about the movies and observations about
the writer's life in her hometown of Columbus. All events are
free and open to the public. On each day of the festival, the
McCullers childhood home at 1519 Stark Avenue will be opened for
tours from 4 to 6 p.m.
3000 Macon Road
Saturday, March 28, 2009, 7 p.m.
Sunday, March 8, 2009, 3 p.m.
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