Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

["Henry P. Mills" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>]

Dear Percy-L:

The following is a breakdown of events.  Full schedule at www.walkerpercyweekend.org.

Best,

Henry Mills

Percy-L Administrator

The summertime festival celebrating the life and legacy of the acclaimed author in St. Francisville, LA

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June 1 - 3, 2018, St. Francisville, La

Question: How do you like your
Southern literature served?

Illuminated by scholars in historic surroundings?

Shared with writers in intimate, book-club settings?

Paired with wine and hors d'oeuvres beneath moss-draped live oaks?

Celebrated during a spirited crawfish and craft beer feast?

Toasted with summer-weight cocktails served on historic porches?

If any (or all) of this sounds like a good time, the fifth annual Walker Percy Weekend is for you! Louisiana's most spirited literary festival brings acclaimed writers, speakers and scholars to St. Francisville for lectures, panel discussions, book study groups and spirited social events.

TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL EVENTS ON SALE MAY 1
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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.

 

Full schedule at www.walkerpercyweekend.org

 

 

Thanks to our Sponsors!

Nancy Vinci
Davis Family Foundation | Baton Rouge Area Foundation | Glynda & John Fetzer | Susan and Jimbo Roland | Sullivan Dental Center | Wyoming Plantation | Burns & Co. Realtor | UBS | Julie & Mitch Brashier | The Conundrum | Couhig Partners, LLP | Kevin Couhig | James Dart & David Parker | Brady Flavin - State Farm | Louise and Bishop Charles Jenkins | Noelle and Sam LeBlanc | Polly and Conville Lemoine | The Levasseur Family | Record Agency | Steve Sandahl | Lynda and Peter Truitt | Ms. Sue Turner | Carly & Adam Whatley | Donna Wright | Janice Wynn 

 

 

The Walker Percy Weekend is presented by the Julius Freyhan Foundation, P.O. Box 1636, St. Francisville, LA, 70775
www.freyhanfoundation.org

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