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

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

 

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

One week from now …

… three hundred readers, writers, scholars & thinkers will gather in St. Francisville for the fifth annual Walker Percy Weekend. The literary festival blends the best of Southern literary exploration with spirited hospitality, in one of Louisiana's loveliest small-town settings. 

 

 

A handful of tickets to individual events, (including the lectures, the Saturday night crawfish boil, and the legendary Progressive Front Porch Bourbon Stroll) are still available. 

GET YOURS BEFORE THEY'RE GONE

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

 

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 | The American Conservative | 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 | Glenn Solomon | 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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Henry P. Mills
Percy-L Administrator
The Walker Percy Project, Director
www.ibiblio.org/wpercy