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blues in the night

October 13, 2015 By Lawrence Wells

Dean never told me which of Chopin’s waltzes she and her cousins all knew by heart but “Waltz in A Minor” with its tone of reflection and loss could have been the theme song of “Judith,” the ghost of Rowan Oak, who as the story goes, jilted by her Yankee soldier, committed suicide. One night at Rowan Oak in the late ’40s, Dean’s cousin Victoria, William’s stepdaughter, began playing the Chopin waltz at midnight. Jill, Dean and Vicki rushed downstairs only to find no one at the piano. Of course they believed the poltergeist Judith was haunting them. Only when Victoria was dying of cancer would she admit that she and Pappy set up the prank. When Dean was getting married in 1958 (to first husband), before leaving for St. Peter’s Episcopal Church she stopped on the steps of Rowan Oak where Judith “fell to her death” and asked Pappy if Judith was real. He said, “No, Dean, I made her up for you and the girls, but I believe in her, don’t you?”

And now, Chopin’s Waltz in A Minor as performed by “Miss Judith Sheegog” of Oxford, Mississippi:

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Ed Meek, Curtis Wilkie and Gov. William Winter discuss 1962 riot at Overby Center

October 1, 2015 By Lawrence Wells

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Join us for Ed Meek/Curtis Wilkie/William Winter discussion of 1962 riot

September 28, 2015 By Lawrence Wells

On Wednesday, Sept. 30 — the 53rd anniversary of the 1962 Ole Miss riot – at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics Ed Meek will give a power-point show of photographs from his new book “RIOT” and along with former Gov. William Winter and Overby Fellow Curtis Wilkie discuss the night that altered the history of the University of Mississippi.

The event, which will begin at 5 p.m. in the Overby Center Auditorium, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the program.
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Founded in 1975, Yoknapatawpha Press is a southern regional press established by co-publishers, Lawrence Wells and the late Dean Faulkner Wells. Most of the press's projects are generated in-house.The company is named for William Faulkner's fictional county, Yoknapatawpha, from the Chickasaw word meaning "gentle water."

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