Dedication of Faulkner Plaque

Presenter Information

Yoknapatawpha Arts Council

Location

Lafayette County Courthouse

Start Date

31-7-1983 4:30 PM

Description

The Mississippi Arts Commission provided grants to the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council to install a plaque at the Oxford City Courthouse with a quotation from William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun: But above all, the courthouse: the center, the focus, the hub; sitting looming in the center of the county’s circumference like a single cloud in its ring of horizon, laying its vast shadow to the uttermost rim of horizon; musing, brooding, symbolic and ponderable, tall as cloud, solid as rock, dominating all. . . .

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Jul 31st, 4:30 PM

Dedication of Faulkner Plaque

Lafayette County Courthouse

The Mississippi Arts Commission provided grants to the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council to install a plaque at the Oxford City Courthouse with a quotation from William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun: But above all, the courthouse: the center, the focus, the hub; sitting looming in the center of the county’s circumference like a single cloud in its ring of horizon, laying its vast shadow to the uttermost rim of horizon; musing, brooding, symbolic and ponderable, tall as cloud, solid as rock, dominating all. . . .