Trending Now- Susan Haltom Lecture
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 @ 7:00pm
Join the Atlanta History Center’s Cherokee Garden Library for a delightful evening with garden designer and preservationist Susan Haltom, who will discuss her new book, One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place. The lecture will be followed by a book signing and reception.
Even in her earliest short stories, the writer Eudora Welty (1909–2001) wove images of southern flora and gardens into her writing, yet few outside her personal circle knew that they originated in her own passionate connection to her home garden in Jackson, Mississippi, designed by her mother. Near the end of her life, Welty recounted her memories of the lost garden to Susan Haltom, a local garden designer, who helped bring it back. When Welty died in 2001, a restoration of the garden was well underway—and with it, the untold story of the garden’s place in the writer’s artistic life. Woven throughout this fascinating story are passages from Welty’s unpublished writing as well as excerpts from her personal letters.
Susan Haltom is a garden designer and Preservation and Maintenance Coordinator of the Eudora Welty garden. She has published in Mississippi Magazine, Old House Journal, and Magnolia, publication of the Southern Garden History Society.
This special evening is a fundraising event for the Cherokee Garden Library endowment. Admission is $35 individual; $50 couple; $350 patron. Reservations are required. Call 404.814.4046 or email SCatron@AtlantaHistoryCent er.com.
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