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Directors’ Letter 5th & University / December, 2023

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Greeting everyone, from the University Museum and Rowan Oak, where Fall weather has taken a delightfully chilly turn from this Minnesota native’s Nordic-origins perspective. Writing here in the closing days of November gives me calendar leeway to adopt a thankfulness approach and theme to this month’s 5th & University communication to you all. The Museum … Read more

2024 Holiday Keepsake – William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak

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  The 2024 keepsake celebrates William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak. In 1930, William Faulkner purchased an unoccupied home, The Bailey Place, a primitive Greek revival house on four acres of hardwood and cedar. The original owner was Colonel Robert Sheegog, an Irish immigrant enslaver from Tennessee who had the home built in 1844. The Bailey family … Read more

American Landscapes Press Release

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October 17, 2023 New Publication Features Preeminent Artists, Authors, and Scholars Reflecting on Landscapes in Art and Literature during a Time of Unprecedented Change  “American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World” (University Press of Mississippi, November 2023) Oxford, MS…The University Press of Mississippi (UPM) in association with University of Mississippi Museum … Read more