Tuesday, January 14, 2014

WALKER PERCY WEEKEND IN ST. FRANCISVILLE

 ST. FRANCISVILLE,  LOUISIANA PLANS A WALKER PERCY FESTIVAL

The weekend of June 6-7, 2014 will be the place to be if you are interested in Walker Percy.
The Festival will open with a crawfish boil on Friday, and on Saturday during the day there will be panel discussions in the morning and early afternoon.

The topics are intriguing.  "Moviegoing and The Meaning of Life,"  "Is Science Enough Without Religion?," "The Jewish People as Sign,"  "Walker Percy and the Search for Home."  

The director of the conference is Rod Dreher.  Go to www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher or follow the festival on Twitter at @walkerpercyfest.  Also the festival is featured in Country Roads.  Go to www.countryroadsmagazine.com for the article on the doings in St. Francisville.

Additionally, there will be tours of St. Francisville on Saturday.

At night on Saturday also there will be more Louisiana food and a chance to enjoy Walker's favorite drink, "Bourbon."

As Rod wrote, "very little is as delightful as sitting around in the shade of an oak tree, drinking cold beer and talking about the South, and books, and ideas with other people who love them as much as I do."   He considers Walker Percy's literary legacy a "cultural treasure," and so do we - and Percy's books were written right here in Covington in St.Tammany Parish. 

The Festival should be lots of fun and it will followour own celebration the previous Sunday, April 27.  It will be a great way to celebrate Spring!