An opening reception for the exhibit "Eudora Welty in Context: Representing Race in New Deal Photography" is tonight [Sept. 8], from 5:30-7:30 p.m., in MSU's McComas Gallery. Welty is the topic of many events and conversations this semester with her book "The Optimist's Daughter" being read by the MSU family for the Maroon Edition first-year reading experience. Hired in the 1930s as a junior publicity agent for the federal Works Progress Administration, Welty wrote news articles about many memorable situations in post-Depression Mississippi--some of which may have been the basis for her later stories. The exhibit pieces are from the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center. For more on the exhibit, click here.