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==Commemoration== [[File:Eudorawelty.jpg|thumb|Welty's headstone at [[Greenwood Cemetery (Jackson, Mississippi)|Greenwood Cemetery]] in Jackson, Mississippi]] * In 1990, [[Steve Dorner]] named his e-mail program "[[Eudora (e-mail client)|Eudora]]", inspired by Welty's story "Why I Live at the P.O."<ref>"[http://www.eudora.com/presskit/backgrounder.html#name Historical Backgrounder] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021108211012/http://www.eudora.com/presskit/backgrounder.html#name |date=November 8, 2002 }}". Eudora.com. Retrieved November 28, 2011.</ref> Welty was reportedly "pleased and amused" by the tribute.<ref name="thomas19970121">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/012197eudora.html |title=For Inventor of Eudora, Great Fame, No Fortune | work=The New York Times | date=1997-01-21 | access-date=10 August 2014 | author=Thomas, Jo}}</ref> * In 1973, the state of Mississippi established May 2 as "Eudora Welty Day".<ref>"[http://mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/eudora-welty.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020081602/http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/eudora-welty.html|date=October 20, 2014}}". Mississippi Writers and Musicians, Retrieved March 17, 2012</ref> * Each October, [[Mississippi University for Women]] hosts the "Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium" to promote and celebrate the work of contemporary Southern writers.<ref>"[http://www.muw.edu/welty/ Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium]" Mississippi University for Women. Retrieved November 28, 2011.</ref> * [[Mississippi State University]] sculpture professor Critz Campbell has designed furniture inspired by Welty, that has been featured in ''[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]'' magazine, ''The New York Times'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'' and ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'' magazine, and on the [[Discovery Channel]]. * A portrait of Eudora Welty hangs in the [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]] of the Smithsonian; it was painted by her friend [[Mildred Wolfe|Mildred Nungester Wolfe]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Eudora Alice Welty |url=https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.88.163 |website=National Portrait Gallery |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref> *On September 10, 2018, Eudora Welty became the first author honored with a historical marker through the [[Mississippi Writers Trail]]. The historical marker was installed at the Eudora Welty House and Garden in Jackson, Mississippi.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Eudora Welty gets first marker on Mississippi Writers Trail|url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/09/11/eudora-welty-gets-first-marker-mississippi-writers-trail/1267895002/|access-date=2020-06-16|website=The Clarion Ledger|language=en}}</ref>
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