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Pruitt Branch Library will close beginning July 1 for maintenance. Hold items will be rerouted to the Main Library. We anticipate reopening in early fall.
Tonight, we join William Faulkner on a trip back to the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi, where we meet Miss Emily Grierson, our story’s heroine, who shows us just how fine the line is that is drawn between small town eccentricity and ghastly horror. This story was Faulkner’s first to be published in a national magazine.
And now, turn down the lights, and join us for “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner….