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NEW ORLEANS - The estate of a writer who chronicled Southern food and life will be auctioned next month to benefit a charity created to continue her philant
Before she died last August, the writer and long-time
Garden & Gun contributor Julia Reed set up a charitable trust to carry on her legacy. “She wanted to engage her friends, family, and community of readers,” says Keith Smythe Meacham, the chair of the Julia Evans Reed Charitable Trust, Reed’s business partner in Reed Smythe & Company, and her longtime friend. “She wanted to continue what she began so beautifully during her lifetime.” That trust will continue to give to Reed’s favorite nonprofits which support such causes as housing security, food security, education, and the arts in the Mississippi Delta while also targeting other charities that fit Reed’s mission.