[percy-l] "On Friendship with Walker Percy" - A Personal Remembrance by Judge F. Stephen Ellis
Henry P. Mills III
wppdirector at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 19:17:29 EDT 2022
Dear Percy-L community:
For those interested in a previously unpublished personal remembrance of
Percy, please enjoy this touching recollection penned by longtime Covington
resident Judge F. Stephen Ellis, as prepared for The Walker Percy Project.
Following the below excerpt is a link to Judge Ellis' full remembrance, as
well as one to more remembrances from other close friends of Percy,
including Robert Coles.
Would anyone else on the list care to share personal remembrances or
recollections of Percy, or past visits to his hometown area?
(Dave Duty, I’ve always wanted to know more about your long term
correspondence with Percy on semiotics and where the collection is housed
today so researchers can know about it.)
Best Percy regards,
Henry Mills
Percy-L Administrator
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*On Friendship with Walker Percy*
BY FREDERICK STEPHEN ELLIS
Judge F. Stephen Ellis is author of the historical book *St. Tammany
Parish: L'Autre Cote Du La*c (Pelican: 1981), which includes a foreword by
Walker Percy. Ellis' remembrance is dated January 21, 1997, and is an
original publication arranged for by The Project.
"I first met Walker shortly after I came to Covington in the summer of
1949. He lived in the old Norman place on Military Road, about three miles
out from Covington. We would see each other from time to time at parties
and other community events. When his first book, "The Moviegoer," came out,
it was not considered a big deal locally, even after he won the National
Book Award. There were, after all, other published authors in Covington.
There was not a bookstore, but Hebert's drug store carried his book, and it
was there that I bought my first edition.
We got to be good friends in the early to mid-70s, when we mated our
miniature schnauzers…"
Remembrance continued at:
https://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/remembrances/ellis.html
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