MOBILE, Ala. (NBC 15) — Prichard/Mobile nonprofit LEGACY 166 will present two public performances of “Meet Zora Neale Hurston on Saturday, June 06 and Sunday, June 07. The presentations are FREE to the public.
This historical life reenactment is part of a series of events under the Big Read Grant awarded to LEGACY 166 by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and AMERICA 250. The June 06 show will take place at Prichard Municipal Complex, 218 E. Prichard Lane at 2:00 p.m. The June 07 show will take place at Historic Avenue Cultural Center, 564 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue at 2:00 p.m.
Zora Neale Hurston was a writer, anthropologist and folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance. She was born in 1891 in Notasulga, AL, about 12 miles south of Auburn, to formerly enslaved parents. The family moved to Eatonville, Florida, when she was a toddler. She earned her associate degree from Howard University and moved to Harlem in the1920’s, where she spent time with writers and poets like Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. She became a literary force with her short stories, plays, and novels like “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” that she wrote in 1937 while she was in Haiti on a Guggenheim Fellowship. The book became her most famous novel…