Opening Sept. 14 at The MAX ‘Love Daddy: Letters from My Father’ by David Rae Morris
Published 10:00 am Saturday, August 25, 2018
- Willie Morris in the College Hill Cemetery in LaFayette County, Mississippi in January 1980. Photo/© David Rae Morris. All Rights Reserved. From the series/exhibit "Letters From My Father."
The complicated relationship between a father and son, separated by distance and time while bound by love and admiration, is revealed in “Love Daddy: Letters from my Father,” which opens Sept. 14 at The Mississippi Arts & Entertainment Experience (The MAX) in downtown Meridian.
David Rae Morris, son of the late Willie Morris, uses photographs as snapshots into who his father was as a man, father, and author. Willie Morris’ letters reveal an everlasting love and affection that he was unable to express through dialogue but could through written word. The letters and photographs intertwined helped both men cross the generational divide to understand each other, but to also love—daddy and son.
On Sept. 15, David Rae Morris will present a lecture on this exhibit, and a special screening of his film “Yazoo Revisited: Integration and Segregation in a Deep Southern Town” will be shown Dec. 1.
“Love Daddy” will be on display in the Fred and Cissie Wile Changing Exhibition Gallery at The MAX until Dec. 15. Free with museum admission.
The MAX is located at 2155 Front St. For more information about this exhibit and other events, call 601-581-1550 or visit the website www.msarts.org
