SHORT TAKES : Town Wants to Honor Author
Officials in the town where Alice Walker was born want to build a trail honoring the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Color Purple.”
Walker, 46, is honored in Eatonton only with a street named for her and with books on display at the Chamber of Commerce.
Organizers of The Color Purple Educational Fund Foundation, which helps needy students, want to create a trail passing Walker’s birthplace, her mother’s home and the cemetery where her father and other relatives are buried.
Plans also call for erecting a monument in the courthouse square.
“I wish we had a museum,” said City Councilman Ulysses Rice.
Other works by Walker include “You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down,” “I Love Myself When I’m Laughing” and “Meridian.”
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