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Drawing in colorful markers showing a street with buildings and grass on either wide. Labels include The Grill, Sweet Stuff, Lou Boyds

Mitford as drawn by a young reader, undated

“Inventing Mitford: The Papers of Jan Karon” is an online exhibition produced by the University of Virginia Library in 2021.

Curators: Molly Schwartzburg, Annyston Pennington, and Charlotte Hennessy
Exhibition Coordinator: Holly Robertson
Design: Mike Powers
Digitization: UVA Library Digital Production Group
Jan Karon Papers archival finding aid: Sharon Defibaugh

Special thanks to Jan Karon and Kim Goss

All images in this exhibition, with the exception of images of The Blowing Rocket, are from the Jan Karon Papers (MSS 16777).

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