Eudora Welty House & Garden Scavenger Hunt

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DIRECTIONS: Search the museum to find the answer to each question, then use the letters in the answers to spell out the secret message below!

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First Room 1. What song did Welty’s parent whistle phrases from to each other?

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2 1 2. What object in the museum was owned by Eudora’s father, Christian Welty, and helped

them see the moon and Big Dipper?

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3. What hobby did Eudora share with her mother, Chestina Welty?

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Second Room 4. What book did Eudora Welty’s father give her in 1925?

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5. What is the name the only children’s book Eudora Welty ever wrote? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 4 7

6. Watch the slideshow of Welty family photographs. Circle the instruments that Eudora Welty played.

Ukulele Drums Guitar Piano Violin Flute Hallway

7. What is the title of the Thomas “Fats” Waller album on display? ___ ___ ___ ’ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___’ 8 5

The Eudora Welty Type DIRECTIONS: After you have finished your scavenger hunt and solved the secret message, go to down the hallway to the back room with carpet on the floor. Use the typewriters and colors to complete the final questions.

8. Type your name on using one of the typewriters. (Ask a museum worker to help you.)

9. What was your favorite thing you saw at the museum?

10. Draw a picture of it.

Eudora Welty House and Garden Scavenger Hunt – A

1. Name two gadgets owed by Christian Welty?

2. What historic event happened the year the Norton Book of Friendship was published?

3. What are the three chapters in One Writer’s Beginnings?

4. Who wrote The Perfect Garden?

5. Name one magazine that Welty’s work was published in and what its title is. Bonus: Which president awarded Welty the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Eudora Welty House and Garden Scavenger Hunt – B

1. How old was Welty when she wrote and illustrated “Christmas Story?”

2. Who inspired Welty’s love of photography?

3. Which Welty novel was published the same year as Brown v. Board of Education?

4. What ship did Welty take her last voyage to Europe on?

5. Where did Welty believe books came from as a little girl? Bonus: What museum was Welty at when she receive the French Légion d'honneur?

Eudora Welty House and Garden Scavenger Hunt – C

1. Name two renowned writers that Welty met during her lifetime.

2. What was the nickname given to Christian Welty by his mother?

3. Who did Welty write “The Glorious Apology” for?

4. What song did Welty’s parent whistle phrases from to each other?

5. What was the first book Welty published? Bonus: What year was Welty awarded the Pulizer Prize?

Garden Signage Scavenger Hunt

UPPER GARDEN 1. Welty liked the garden because it gave her a break from ___________.

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2. Welty said, “My ____________ takes its strength and guides its direction from what I see and hear and learn and feel and remember from my living world.”

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3. “In this little courthouse town,” Welty wrote, “even the cut grass in the yards smelled different from ___________ grass.”

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4. Which bird did Cassie Morrison talk about in Welty’s story “June Recital” from 1949? o ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ - ____ ____ ____ ____

LOWER GARDEN

5. What two structures screened in the Lower Garden? o ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ and ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____

6. Which plants died virtually overnight in the 1960s?

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7. What insect did Welty mention in a 1941 letter to her agent Diarmuid Russell? o ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____

GARDEN RESTORATION

8. The garden’s restoration was guided by _____________ with Eudora, her photos, her mother’s garden journals and Eudora’s correspondence.

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9. Eudora often climbed onto the _______ of her family home to take pictures of the garden.

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10. What was Eudora’s father’s name? o ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____

11. When was Eudora Welty’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Optimist’s Daughter published?

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Garden Signage Scavenger Hunt

CAMELLIA ROOM 12. Welty’s editor once told her, “Don’t ever have the ________ in the wrong part of the

sky” in a story. o ____ ____ ____ ____

13. What was Eudora’s favorite flower?

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14. When does the camellia bloom? o ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ to ____ ____ ____ ____ ____

SIDE PORCH 15. Welty’s friends called themselves “The ______________-_____________ Cereus Club.”

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CLUBHOUSE

16. The Clubhouse was original the domain of Eudora’s __________.

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17. In the clubhouse, there is a picture of Eudora poking fun at the “______________ game” as played by cosmetic companies like Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden.

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18. Who was cast in the role of clubhouse astrologer? o ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____

19. The clubhouse was also known as the “____________” by Eudora and her friends.

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20. Which one of Eudora’s friends was a composer, conductor, and musical director, who later won two Tony Awards?

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(Book by Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown about the restoration!)