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  • From: Henry Mills <wppdirector AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [percy-l] 2015 Walker Percy Weekend: Update and Event Offerings for June 5-7
  • Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:33:33 -0400

Title: The Walker Percy Weekend: Single Tickets On Sale Now
Dear Percy-L:

Here is current information on the event offerings scheduled for the Walker Percy Weekend in St. Francisville, LA, to be held June 5-7, 2015.  A limited number of tickets is now on sale.

You may also access this information at http://www.walkerpercyweekend.org.

Best,
Henry Mills
Percy-L Administrator

 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. APRIL 15, 2015
For more information contact James Fox-Smith | (225) 721-1460 | admin AT walkerpercyweekend.org

THE LITERARY FESTIVAL CELEBRATING THE WRITER AND HIS WORKS
JUNE 5—7, 2015
ST. FRANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA

Lectures and Panel Discussions. The Twilight in the Ruins Cocktail Party. The Progressive Front Porch Bourbon Tour. Individual tickets for the signature events of the 2015 Walker Percy Weekend went on sale today. At the time of sending fewer than 50 remained.

To get yours, visit
www.walkerpercyweekend.org.

The second annual Walker Percy Weekend celebrates the acclaimed novelist’s life and work in unforgettable surroundings, June 5—7 in St. Francisville. Intellectually serious but high-spirited, the festival invites fans of Southern literature to pursue appreciation of Percy's thought and writing while attending presentations by renowned scholars, panel discussions, readings, tours to sites familiar to readings, and social and culinary events inspired by the author's most famous works. Events take place at locations around St. Francisville's historic district.

SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS

LECTURES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS: Renowned writers, thinkers, and teachers gather to discuss the life and legacy of Walker Percy and related writers. Panel topics include "Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy: Catholics in the Christ-Haunted South," "Walker Percy and David Foster Wallace: Losing It at the Movies," "From Gone With the Wind to Garden & Gun: Walker Percy at the Crossroads of the Old South and the New," and "Mississippi Woman, Louisiana Man: Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, and the Southern Imagination." For details visit www.walkerpercyweekend.org.

A TWILIGHT IN THE RUINS cocktail party staged in the spectacular Ruins Garden at Afton Villa Gardens—once the site of a Percy family home. Featuring specialty drinks and fine hors d’oeuvres crafted by Heirloom Cuisine.

The return of the
PROGRESSIVE FRONT-PORCH TOUR AND BOURBON TASTING inspired by Percy’s famous essay, “Bourbon, Neat.” The tour visits notable homes around the Historic District, with a different summer-weight bourbon-based refreshment served at each.

An authentic
LOUISIANA CRAWFISH BOIL served with a selection of regional craft beers, presented by Chefs Cody and Samantha Carroll of Hot Tails Restaurant in New Roads. With music by Ben Bell & the Stardust Boys.

GUIDED TOURS to visit sites familiar to fans of Percy’s fiction: Entergy’s River Bend Nuclear Plant and Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola (THE THANATOS SYNDROME), and a self-guided driving tour visiting notable Percy family sites around the Felicianas.

And a chance to
WIN A WEEKEND GETAWAY to the magnificent Southern Hotel in Covington, LA, ranked among the South’s Best New Hotels for 2015 by Southern Living magazine.


Walker Percy (1916—1990) wrote novels that explored the “dislocation of man in the modern age.” Most of his work was set in New Orleans and around South Louisiana, including the semi-fictitious Feliciana, which the author based upon West Feliciana and the other Florida parishes. Percy’s debut novel,
THE MOVIEGOER, won the National Book Award for Fiction, and was included on Time magazine’s list of the 100 Best English language novels from 1923—2005. In later works, including LOVE IN THE RUINS, THE LAST GENTLEMAN, and THE THANATOS SYNDROME, Percy continued exploring the search for meaning in an increasingly materialistic society via masterfully wrought tales delivered with a poetic Southern sensibility and informed by the author’s deep Catholic faith.

Festival proceeds support the
JULIUS FREYHAN FOUNDATION—an organization dedicated to restoring the historic Freyhan School building to serve as a community and cultural center for West Feliciana Parish.
 
FOR SCHEDULE, TICKETS AND ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.WALKERPERCYWEEKEND.ORG
* high-resolution photos available upon request.

Painting information: George Rodrigue (1944-2013, Walker Percy, 1982, oil on canvas, 40"x30", collection of the artist




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