After a March screening of Eudora at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art was canceled due to severe weather, the Ocean Springs museum has announced the show will go on later this summer.
On Saturday, Aug. 2, the documentary focused on the life and legacy of the Jackson writer will air inside Thaxton Studios beginning at 2 p.m. After the 56-minute screening, panel discussions will be held with those behind the Southeast Emmy-winning film.
While the Walter Anderson Museum of Art is an ode to Gulf Coast great Walter Anderson, those who run the quaint museum never shy away from shining the spotlight on others who called Mississippi home while making a global difference in their respective mediums. Welty and Anderson may have lived over 160 miles apart, but there were many points of connection and mutual inspiration between the two artists.
The documentary, based on the homonymous book by Anthony Thaxton, Amy Bryant Thaxton, and Robert St. John, is described as one in which Welty’s life “is explored through intimate photographs and charming interviews with family friends set against the backdrop of Jackson, Mississippi. A film by Anthony Thaxton, Eudora is a revealing portrait of adventure, daring, humor, and love as we meet a writer we only thought we knew.”
Those who visit the museum to watch the screening will also get a chance to purchase signed copies of Eudora and The Bicycle Logs of Walter Anderson by John G. Anderson and Anthony Thaxton.
The late Welty is widely considered one of the best authors to ever come out of the American South. She won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for The Optimist’s Daughter. Other major works of Welty’s include Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, and One Writer’s Beginnings.
The event is free to the public with registration available here. The Walter Anderson Museum of Art is located at 510 Washington Avenue in Ocean Springs.
