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Boxcar Slogan:
Southern Gives a Green Light to Innovations
Eudora Welty, whose centennial year was
celebrated in 2009, wrote of a novel's beginnings: Origins are
mysterious, whatever handle you try to pick them up by. The
origin of The Southern Literary Trail is, in fact, not a mystery.
This project results from a collaboration of visionaries and
supportive organizations in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi whose
names are listed on this page with gratitude for their unflinching
dedication to the literary arts and historic preservation in the
South.
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Alabama Humanities Foundation
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Click on a state below for Sponsor information in that area.
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
ALABAMA
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Project Sponsors:
The Marengo County Historical Society
The Alabama Center for the Book
Project Directors:
William Gantt
Mark Wilson
Martha H. Turner, Treasurer
Humanities Adviser:
Dr. Bert Hitchcock
Hargis Professor of American Literature
Auburn University
Grants Adviser:
Susan Perry
The Alabama Humanities Foundation
Grant Support:
The Alabama Humanities Foundation
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Additional Committee Members,
Museum Directors
and Trailfest 2009 Participants:
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Barbara Baker
Leigh Anne Litwiller Berte
Kirk Brooker
Alan Brown
Lorretta Burns
Melinda Byrd-Murphy
Jane Ellen Clark
Robert Clem
William Cobb
Kirk Curnutt
Margaret Davis
Wanda Devereaux
Bettye English
Wayne Flynt
Lindsy Gardiner
Erica Griffin
John Hafner
Carolyn Haines
Elaine Hughes
Martha Huie
Kern Jackson
John Johnson
Jay Lamar
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Emily Love
Mary Morrow
Gary McCaig
Michael McCreedy
Elizabeth McGowan
Jean McIver
Kayte Melton
James H. Meredith
Don Noble
Carol Puckett
Susan Puckett
Cindy Roberts
Jennifer Sittason
John Sledge
Randy Sparkman
Cleo Thomas
Jeanie Thompson
Gwyn C. Turner
Andy Vest
Sue Walker
Jerome Ward
Steve Whitton
Lynn Wickett
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GEORGIA
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Project Sponsors:
Andalusia Farm
The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians
Georgia Center for the Book
Project Directors:
Craig Amason
(Executive Director, Andalusia Foundation)
Cathy Fussell
(Director, Carson McCullers Center)
Humanities Adviser:
Dr. Tom McHaney
Kenneth England Professor, Emeritus, of Southern Literature
Georgia State University
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Additional Committee Members,
Museum
Directors and Trailfest 2009 Participants:
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Julie Bookman
Nannette Curran
Nancy Smith Fichter
Robert W. Fichter
Bruce Gentry
Margaret Rose Gladney
Bruce Green
Ann Hale
Bradley Hale
Ravi Howard
Diane Lewis
Laura Thomson McCarty
Dorothy McClatchey
Rena Patton
Joni Saxon-Giusti
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Eve
McClatchey Saunders
Alexandra Schultheis
Donald R. Seawell
Lain Shakespeare
John Siegel
Winston Skinner
Austin Smith
William Starr
Ann Suich
John H. Templeton
Jane Thimme
Bill Tribby
Jay Tribby
Arden Williams
Jamil Zainaldin
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MISSISSIPPI
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Project Sponsor:
Mississippi Center for the Book
Project Directors:
Tracy Carr Seabold
Bridget Pieschel
Humanities Advisers:
Dr. Jack White
Director Emeritus, University Honors Program
Mississippi State University
Dr. Bridget Pieschel
Director of the Southern Women's Institute and the Eudora
Welty Symposium
Mississippi University for Women
Grants Adviser:
Barbara Carpenter
The Mississippi Humanities Council
Grant Support:
The Mississippi Humanities Council
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Additional Committee Members,
Museum Directors, and Trailfest 2009 Participants:
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Carol Anderson
Patti Carr Black
Brenda Caradine
Alferdteen Harrison
Meemie Jackson
Pat Kaye
Sam Kaye
Colby H. Kullman
Suzanne Marrs
Panny Mayfield
Lois McMurchy
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John Padgett
Steve Pieschel
Karen Redhead
Judy Rosenblatt
Albert Sperath
Amy Steadman
Stan Street
Joseph Urgo
Emilie White
Mary Alice Welty White
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GENERAL CREDITS & SUPPORT
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Logo Design:
Kirk Brooker
Website Design:
Alli Denning
Kate Will
Denning E-Solutions
Website Research and Text:
William Gantt
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