Dear Percy-L:
Below is the latest update from the Walker Percy Weekend scheduled for June 2-4 in the charming and quaint town of St. Francisville, LA, on the Mississippi River just north of Baton Rouge. A limited number of individual tickets remain available. Enjoy the link below for a photograph gallery of recent weekends.
All best Percy wishes, Henry Mills -- Percy-L Administrator
June 2 - 4, 2017, St. Francisville, La"BOURBON DOES FOR ME WHAT THE PIECE OF CAKE DID FOR PROUST."—Walker Percy, 1975There won't be any tea and cake served at the fourth annual Walker Percy Weekend. But with crab cakes, shrimp & grits, roast beef, summer-weight bourbon cocktails, and boiled crawfish by the hundredweight, we promise no-one will be starved for sustenance—literary or otherwise. Beloved for blending spirited literary discussion with spectacular social events, the annual Walker Percy Weekend fortifies attendees for the lectures and panel discussions with the finest Louisiana food and beverages, served in historic settings around St. Francisville. On the menu: "Lost in the Churchyard" GalaAn elegantly provisioned cocktail party and dinner staged in the live-oak-shaded grounds of Grace Episcopal Church. Crawfish & Craft Beer FeastThe annual feast presents peak-season crawfish prepared by chefs Cody & Samantha Carroll of Hot Tails Restaurant. Social & Culinary AdventuresOpportunities to mix and mingle bring locals and visitors together to talk about life, literature, and the world as Walker saw it. Porch Tour & Bourbon TastingInspired by Percy's beloved essay Bourbon, Neat, this evening stroll visits historic front porches to enjoy various whiskey cocktails. Individual tickets are on sale now
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.
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