Oh Heavens no, don’t think that this past summer’s retrospective exhibition meant that Bern and Franke Keating, Greenville, Mississippi’s dynamic travel writing-photographing duo, have packed up the cameras and computer! It only meant that . . .

    This past May, the Keatings graciously allowed the Center for the Study of Southern Culture to pack up a sizable chunk of their life’s work thousands of photographs of the American South for new digs at the University of Mississippi's Southern Media Archive.

    Which meant that the Barnard Observatory Gallery had a grand time showing off our new photographic collection and its creators with an exhibition that credited the range of publications illustrated by Keating photographs and chronicled the 50 years that Southern faces and Southern places captured by Keating cameras have appeared, nationally and internationally, in print media.

    Now we’re telling everybody how pleased we are to pack off our exhibition for a showing at Greenville Art Council’s Wetherbee House.

Susan Lloyd McClamroch