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The following list of arts-related heritage sites can help you in building your trip.

OXFORD:

  • Rowan Oak — Home of novelist William Faulkner (There are numerous sites related to Faulkner in and around Oxford; see Faulkner Itinerary).
  • Oxford Town Square — Designated as a National Historic District, the Town Square appears in a number of novels of a number of Southern writers, including Faulkner.
  • Walton-Young Home — Home of writer Stark Young.
  • University Museum — Houses five different collections, including collection of works by primitive painter Theora Hamblett.
  • J. D. Williams Library Archives — Houses 300 manuscript collections, including the Faulkner collection and over 20,000 volumes of Mississippiana. Also displayed are paintings, photographs and Faulkner’s Nobel.
  • Blues Archives, J. D. Williams Library — The world’s largest repository of blues recordings and other blues materials, including B. B. King’s musical papers.
  • Square Books — One of the finest independent booksellers in the nation.


HOLLY SPRINGS:

  • Ida B. Wells Museum — Located in the historic Spires-Bolling home, the museum houses a variety of family heirlooms as well as historic African American artifacts.
  • Cedarhurst — Childhood home of writer Sherwood Bonner.
  • Walthall-Freeman-Clark Home — Family home where painter Kate Freeman Clark retreated after giving up her painting career in New York City.
  • Kate Freeman Clark Gallery — Holds most of Clark’s paintings.


NEW ALBANY:

  • Union County Heritage Museum — Outdoor Faulkner garden features plants found in Faulkner’s fiction, also a scale model of his birthplace.
  • Faulkner Birthplace site


RIPLEY:

  • Ripley Public Library — First editions of Colonel William C. Falkner’s manuscripts.


TUPELO:

  • Elvis Presley Birthplace — 15-acre Birthplace Center includes shotgun house where Elvis was born, an Elvis museum featuring personal memorabilia, “story wall,” chapel and gift shop.


WEST POINT:

  • Howlin Wolf Museum — Located in historic Friday House museum.


COLUMBUS:

  • Tennessee Williams Home/Welcome Center — Former Episcopal rectory where Williams lived as a child when his grandfather was rector.


STARKVILLE:

  • Grisham Room, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University — Literary manuscripts, signed photographs, international editions and even legislative files of this best-selling phenomenon.

  • Charles H. Templeton, Sr., Music Museum, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University — Houses collection of more than 200 self-playing musical instruments, 22,000 pieces of sheet music, 15,000 recordings and other items pertaining to the music business since the mid 1800s.


KOSCIUSKO:

  • Oprah Winfrey Road — A number of Oprah-related sites, including the Buffalo Community Church, the Buffalo Community Center, the Winfrey family cemetery and Oprah’s birthplace.