Columbus State University's Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians has an official website at

http://www.mccullerscenter.org

where you'll find the mission statement, fellowship application materials, detailed information about McCullers' life and work, and information about how you can donate to the McCullers Center. This blog, though, is intended to give you a more casual report of day-to-day goings-on at CSU's Carson McCullers Center.

Monday, May 31, 2010

Brooklyn Trip


Here we stand in the very spot where once stood the famous #7 Middagh Street House, also known as "February House." For a while in 1940, the house was occupied by Carson McCullers and a whole slew of other creative folks, including W.H. Auden, George Davis, Richard Wright, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, and Gypsy Rose Lee.

Pictured left to right are: Cathy Fussell, Leslie Lanning, Amanda Todd, Ty Deane, Rachel Thornell, Sammy Eugenio, Kim Crowell, Chris Beyer, Sarah Hulbert, Leslie Pinckard, Aaron Sanders (peeping around), Rebecca Holman, Orion Wertz, and, on the far right, two New York artists who joined us for the visit to the Middagh Street site -- Wendy and Alvin Eng. Alvin is a playwright who has been inspired by McCullers' work.

After we visited the Middagh Street site and the beautiful Brooklyn Heights neighborhood where so many, many writers have lived, we ventured over into DUMBO for a visit with Phenix Citizen-turned-New-York-artist MIKE HOWARD, pictured below outside his studio, talking with CSU students Leslie Lanning, Amanda Todd, Leslie Pinckard and Sammy Eugenio.

... joined by Rachel Thornell.

Thanks, Mike, for a great tour!
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)