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THE SOUTHERN LITERARY TRAIL BOARD & STATE STEERING COMMITTEE MEMEBERS

The Southern Literary Trail is governed and organized by a tri-state board in collaboration with Steering Committee members in each partner state of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. The Southern Literary Trail Board consists of a Trail director, two co-directors for each state, two academic advisers for each state, a secretary and a treasurer. All serve three year terms and vote on the writers and places honored by the Trail in accordance with requirements stated in the Trail by-laws.

Trail Director:

William Gantt
The Southern Literary Trail
Office phone 205.297.8849
wgg@hfsllp.com
 

Secretary:

William Starr
Georgia Center for the Book, Atlanta
 

Treasurer:

Lain Shakespeare
The Wren's Nest, Atlanta 
 

Alabama Trail Co-Directors:

Willie Thompson
The F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, Montgomery

Carol Puckett
The William Bradford Huie Library, Hartselle 
 

Alabama Academic Advisers:

Bert Hitchcock
Auburn University, Auburn

Don Noble
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 
 

Alabama Steering Committee Members:

David Alsobrook
The Museum of Mobile, Mobile

Kirk Brooker
The Marengo County Historical Society, Demopolis

Loretta Burns
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee

Alan Brown
The University of West Alabama, Livingston

Melinda Byrd-Murphy
Alabama Southern Community College, Monroeville

John Hafner
Springhill College, Mobile

Audrey Hamilton
The Canebrake Players, Demopolis

Jacob Laurence
The Museum of Mobile, Mobile

Julian McPhillips
The F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, Montgomery

Harry Moore
The William Bradford Huie Library, Hartselle

Georgette Norman
Troy University Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery

Stephanie Rogers
The Monroe County Heritage Museums, Monroeville

Nancy Rominger
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery

Randy Sparkman
The William Bradford Huie Library, Hartselle

Sue Walker
The University of South Alabama, Mobile
 

Treasurer for Alabama:

Martha Hightower Turner
The Marengo County Historical Society
Demopolis 
 

Archival support for Alabama:

Jessica Lacher-Feldman
W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 
 

Georgia Trail Co-Directors:

Craig Amason
Andalusia Farm, Milledgeville

Courtney George
The Carson McCullers Center, Columbus  
 

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Georgia Academic Advisers:

Bruce Gentry
Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville

Valerie Boyd
The University of Georgia, Athens 
 

Georgia Steering Committee Members:

Karen Berman
GCSU Theater Department, Milledgeville

Rudolph Byrd
Emory University, Atlanta

Bill Dawers
The Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home, Savannah

Nancy Fichter
The Lillian Smith Center, Clayton

Robert Fichter
The Lillian Smith Center, Clayton

Tom McHaney
Georgia State University, Atlanta

Susan Neill
Atlanta History Center, Atlanta

Winston Skinner
The Erskine Caldwell Birthplace, Moreland

Jane Thimmee
The Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home, Savannah

Kate Whitman
The Margaret Mitchell House, Atlanta 
 

Mississippi Trail Co-Directors:

Bridget Pieschel
Mississippi University for Women, Columbus

James G. Thomas
The University of Mississippi, Oxford 
 

Mississippi Academic Advisers:

Ann Abadie
The University of Mississippi, Oxford

Steve Pieschel
Mississippi University for Women, Columbus 
 

Mississippi Steering Committee Members:

Marion Barnwell
Jackson, Mississippi

Luther Brown
Delta State University, Cleveland

Brenda Carradine
Tennessee Williams Tribute Foundation, Columbus

Bill Griffith
Rowan Oak, Oxford

Colby Kullman
The University of Mississippi, Oxford

Suzanne Marrs
Millsaps College, Jackson

Panny Mayfield
Coahoma Community College, Clarksdale

Sarah McCullough
Mississippi Development Authority, Division of Tourism, Jackson

Joanne Pritchard Morris
Jackson, Mississippi

Scott Naugle
Pass Christian Books, Pass Christian

Noel Polk
Mississippi State University, Oxford

Dorothy Shawhan
Delta State University, Cleveland

Carolyn Vance Smith
Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Natchez

Mary Alice Welty White
The Eudora Welty Foundation and Welty House, Jackson 
 

Special Consultant to the Eudora Welty Exhibit,
Exposures and Reflections:

Pearl McHaney
Georgia State University, Atlanta

 

 
 

SOUTHERN LITERARY TRAIL SUPPORTERS & FRIENDS

Georgia Center for the Book Mississippi Humanities Council Alabama Center for the Book Marengo County Historical Society

    

Alabama Humanities Foundation

Alabama Humanities Foundation

Georgia Tourism Logo

Georgia College

  
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GENERAL CREDITS & SUPPORT

Logo Design:
Kirk Brooker
 
Website Research and Text:
William Gantt

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Website Design:
Alli Denning
Kate Will
Denning E-Solutions

 

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