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.
Author, design aficionado, and longtime
ELLE Decor contributor Julia Reed, who died last August at the age of 59, was well known for entertaining her readers and she was almost as well known for entertaining her guests. This week, the New Orleans auction house Neal Auction announced that starting February 5, many of the heirlooms, art, and
objets that filled Reed’s homes and enlivened her spirited gatherings will be up for sale.
A decorated journalist whose passions ran from politics to literature to food, Reed built her collection over the years from her travels around the world and in her native South.