They are located at 1675 Lakeland Drive in the Regions Bank Building rear entrance. "The Burning" - A Short Story by Eudora Welty. Migrations and Transformations: ... A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Suzanne Marrs argues that “setting does far more than lend credibility to the story’s action. "The Medgar Evers Murder: Eudora Welty." Like Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and a few others, Eudora Welty endures in national memory as the perpetual senior citizen, someone tenured for decades as a silver-haired elder of American letters. The natural world of the Trace is Phoenix’s home, and its qualities are to some extent her own. Eudora Welty Library is conveniently located in the heart of downtown Jackson. Each October, Mississippi University for Women hosts the "Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium" to promote and celebrate the work of contemporary Southern writers. Whenever Eudora Welty spoke of her lone Civil War story, “The Burning,” portraying the destruction of a Mississippi plantation by Union troops, it was usually with dismissal and outright disparagement—although at times her remarks tended to blur her distaste for the story with her horror of anything to do with the Civil War itself. (Published in The Bride of Innisfallen and other Stories, 1955) A Post in Observation of the 105th Birth Anniversary of Eudora Welty. In 1973, the state of Mississippi established May 2 as "Eudora Welty Day". She died there in … Civil Rights, Mississippi, and the Novelist's Craft.. University of Mississippi Libraries Department of Archives and Special Collections. The Administrative Offices for the library system are no longer at Welty Library. Towards the end of Eudora Welty’s “The Demonstrators”, the reader comes across a newspaper article which offers an account of the double murder that happened over the weekend in Holden, Mississippi, where the story takes place. During the 1940s Eudora Welty wrote hundreds of letters to two friends who shared her love of gardening: her literary agent Diarmuid Russell and John Robinson, a high school classmate and aspiring writer who was long the focus of Welty's affection. Eudora Welty was born April 13, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi.