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SUMMARY:Tennessee Williams Tribute 25th Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:FRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 11\, 2026\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | MUW & TWT’s 6th Annual 10:4 TENN National Playwright Competition Reading\nLocation: Columbus-Lowndes Public Library Meeting Room (Upstairs) | 314 7th Street N.\nDetails: Join us for a reading of the top three 10-minute plays from this prestigious national competition. A light lunch will be served\, and the library will showcase vintage film posters from some of Tennessee Williams’ most famous movie adaptations.\n\n\n\n6:00 PM – Late | The Glass Menagerie of Words: Poetry Slam & Live Blues and Jazz\nLocation: Munson & Brothers Beer Garden | 301 2nd Ave North\nDetails: Celebrate Tennessee Williams’ literary successes with performances by local poets alongside a live set featuring his favorite musical styles: blues and jazz.\n\n\n\nSATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 12\, 2026\n\n\n\n8:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Edwina’s Morning: “Coffee\, Pastries\, and the Roots of a Playwright”\nLocation: Tennessee Williams Home Museum & Welcome Center | 300 Main Street\nDetails: Enjoy light breakfast treats while touring the birthplace and first home of Tennessee Williams. Attendees will also experience an original vignette set in the summer of 1913\, featuring local actors portraying Tennessee’s mother\, Edwina Dakin Williams\, and his grandfather\, the Reverend Walter Dakin.\nPerformance Times: Three stagings of “A Little Pitcher with Big Ears” will take place at 9:00 AM\, 9:45 AM\, and 10:30 AM.\n\n\n\n5:30 PM – Late | A Night in New Orleans: “Bringing a Little Big Easy Magic to Columbus”\nLocation: Ridge House | 571 Ridge Road (A historic antebellum home\, lovingly restored and thoughtfully updated)\nDetails: Join us for a fun\, relaxed evening featuring New Orleans cuisine\, Tennessee Williams porch plays\, live jazz music\, and an antique auction!\nPorch Plays: The Glass Marsupial\, The Case of the Crushed Petunias\, & Tennessee’s Leading Lady: A Tribute to Brenda Caradine.\nLive Auction: Presented by Stevens Auction Company\, with a portion of the proceeds directly benefiting the Tennessee Williams Tribute Foundation to preserve the literary legacy of Columbus’s most famous son!\n\n\n\nSUNDAY\, SEPTEMBER 13\, 2026\n\n9:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Grits & Grace: “Tennessee & Theology: Faith and Southern Fiction”\nLocation: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church | 318 College Street\nDetails: Enjoy a traditional Southern breakfast in the Parish Hall\, followed by an extraordinary sermon by The Rev. Andrew McLarty in the sanctuary where Tennessee’s grandfather once preached—and where Tom (Tennessee) and his sister\, Rose\, were baptized.
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SUMMARY:"Womanhood\, North and South: Lydia Maria Child’s Southern Correspondence following Harper’s Ferry" by Dr. Bonnie O'Neill
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Bonnie O’Neill will present “Womanhood\, North and South: Lydia Maria Child’s Southern Correspondence following Harper’s Ferry” in September 28\, 2026 at the downtown branch of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System.​​ \nDr. Bonnie Carr O’Neill teaches early American literature and nineteenth-century American literature. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature and culture\, with special emphasis on the interrelations of literature and public life. Her book Literary Celebrity and Public Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Georgia\, 2017) explores the personalization of public life that accompanied an expanding celebrity culture and its effects on authorship and civic discourse. Celebrity culture\, she argues\, intensifies already-fraught questions of national belonging and democratic participation even as\, for some\, it provides means of redefining personhood and cultural identity. Currently\, Dr. O’Neill is working on a project on Rev. Henry Ward Beecher\, the popular nineteenth-century minister\, lecturer\, and activist.​ \nThis program is sponsored by a Mississippi Humanities Council America250 Grant. \nFor more information\, call the CLPLS at 662-329-5300.
URL:https://www.visitcolumbusms.org/event/womanhood-north-and-south-lydia-maria-childs-southern-correspondence-following-harpers-ferry-by-dr-bonnie-oneill/
LOCATION:Columbus – Lowndes Public Library\, 314 7th Street N\, Columbus\, MS\, 39701
CATEGORIES:Community Event,History
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