2025 Schedule

Friday , Sept 19, 2025

Registration: 2 – 4:30 PM – The Conundrum Bookstore – 11917 Ferdinand Street, St Francisville

5 – 6:30 PM – Grand Opening Reception for The Freyhan Center - 4727 Fidelity Street, St Francisville

7 – 10 PM – Red Dragon Listening Room concert with Sonny Landreth (separate ticket required)

Saturday , Sept 20, 2025

Registration: 8 AM – 5 PM – The Conundrum Bookstore – 11917 Ferdinand Street

 8:30 – 5 PM : Lectures and Panels - The Freyhan Center - 4727 Fidelity Street, St Francisville

8:30 – 10 AM : H. Collin Messer - From Scotch and Stoicism to Bourbon and Sackcloth:  The Redemptive Arc of Percy’s Humor

10:15 – 11:45 AM : Karey Perkins - Walker Percy’s Existential Endings and the Meaning of Life

12 pm – 1:30 PM: Book Club Lunches

Collin Messer: “The Moviegoer”

Michael Strecker: “Love in the Ruins”

Rhonda McDonnell and Karey Perkins: A lunchtime discussion on Symbol and Existence 

1:45 – 3:15 PM: Rhonda McDonnell: Walker Percy and the Scientists of NIMH—Psychiatry as the Central Element of Percy's Character Development

3:30 – 5 PM: Panel Discussion: “Writing Funny: Wit & Wisdom in Contemporary Southern Fiction” with M.O. Walsh, Michael Strecker, and Sean Ennis

 Progressive Front Porch Bourbon Stroll

5 – 7 PM – Porches in the Historic District, see map on back of brochure

 A Taste of Louisiana Supper

7 – 9:30 PM : The Taste of Louisiana Southern Supper, presented with a selection of local craft beers, served at the Freyhan School

9:45 – 'til : Late Night Pub Trivia with the Padre: Close down the 10th annual Walker Percy Weekend with some late night Southern lit trivia with Father Brad Doyle at the Oyster Bar -11101 Ferdinand St. (Cash bar)