Photo gallery: Literary seminar series kicks off at Armstrong Library
Published 12:00 am Monday, September 8, 2014
- People watch the BBC/ Mississippi Public Broadcasting documentary “Richard Wright: Black Boy” during the “Saluting Richard Wright” event at the Judge George W. Armstrong Library Saturday. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)
- Armstrong Library director Pamela Plummer talks before the start of the event Saturday. The event is the first of a series of seminars to be on the first Saturday of each month and will culminate in the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration in February. The talks are free and open to the public. Each seminar will focus on authors who are either natives of the Natchez area or whose works were heavily influenced by the city. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)
- People watch the BBC/ Mississippi Public Broadcasting documentary “Richard Wright: Black Boy” during the “Saluting Richard Wright” event at the Judge George W. Armstrong Library Saturday. Along with the film, there were also speakers commemorating the life of Wright. The event was the first of a series of seminars to be on the first Saturday of each month and will culminate in the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration in February. The talks are free and open to the public. Each seminar will focus on authors who are either natives of the Natchez area or whose works were heavily influenced by the city. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)