From Patch Reports

Garden designer and preservationist Susan Haltom will launch the Atlanta History Center's spring lecture series with a discussion of her new book, "One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place."

Haltom, preservation and maintenance coordinator of the Eudora Welty garden in Jackson, Miss., will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the museum's Kenan Research Center. The garden designer helped the famed Mississippi writer in the restoration of her mother's garden, according to a news release.

Following the lecture,  a book signing and reception will be held. The special evening is a fund-raising event for the history center's Cherokee Garden Library Endowment. Admission is $25 individual; $50 couple; $250 patron. Reservations are required. Call 404-814-4046 or e-mail SCatron@AtlantaHistoryCenter.com.

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