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In keeping with my string of #weirdwords that English AUGHT to have from last week… While reading this I looked up “Pageant of Birds” to see if it was a common thing in southern churches I wasn‘t familiar with. Turns out it was a one-off fundraiser event in this particular church to raise money for a new piano. But… my search led me down an internet 🐇🕳️ suggesting “Pageant of Pigeons” as a communal noun, which I love!👇🏼

Amazing photographic record of depression era Mississippi. Apparently Welty‘s first job post college was as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration, but unsurprisingly the storyteller took her camera & sort of did her own thing. She may not have been a master photographer, but these images unlock a whole world I realized no one‘s ever really talked to me about, even though my grandmother lived through it just a few states over. #20in4

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While on assignment in Mississippi with the WPA in the 1930s depression era, Eudora Welty took photos on her own camera. She could blend into the scenes and snap people just being themselves and celebrating joy wherever they could.