Andalusia, Home of Flannery O'Connor

For Bastille Day, we join George Piggford in looking at the O'Connors' pilgrimage to Lourdes. In spring 1958 Flannery O’Connor e...

This forthcoming Thursday morning at Andalusia is one of my newfound joys out here at the farm: the monthly meeting of the Book Club. We’ll ...

Several years ago during my graduate student days, as part of hosting Dr. Avis Hewitt of Grand Valley State University and her students in t...

In recent months, I have been a bit spoiled by uncharacteristically pleasant weather. A mild Winter made for a very long Spring indeed, and ...

I tend to tell our guests out here that I get the fun jobs out here at the farm—event hosting, tour leading, and the like. Our visitors keep...

A confession popped out yesterday morning during the monthly meeting of the book club: I, the person attempting to lead this meeting of the ...

In her almost 15 years at Andalusia, Flannery started an important tradition that we’re proud to carry on today. When her daily 9-ish to no...

While we tend to focus on Flannery in this space and at the farm, today is a good occasion to appreciate a different resident of Andalusia’s...

This weekend, Milledgeville and Georgia College say its annual goodbye to its graduates. Black robed figures will fill the auditoria and gy...

A tour this morning at Andalusia was greeted not just by yours truly, but by the peafowl, as well: their enthusiastic voices rang out aroun...

For Good Friday, we are pleased to offer this poem by Alice Friman. --Daniel Wilkinson, Editor Visiting Flannery  Andalusia  Across ...

This past week has been an adventurous one, to say the least. Two days’ worth of tornadic weather joined the disastrous fire on that Atlanta...

Today, we celebrate what would have been Flannery O’Connor’s 92nd birthday. Some new friends from Iowa making their “pilgrimage” to Milledge...

With the arrival of Spring and its warm days, the tour season is upon us at the farm. While we do our best to show all of our visitors the i...

With Ash Wednesday on March 1st, the Lenten season has begun. Ashen foreheads were prevalent about Milledgeville on Wednesday, and no doubt...

I must confess: I’ve never been an avid Oscars watcher. Likely stemming from a tendency to stay away from movie theaters, the awards have al...

The first time I visited Andalusia, I was a high school student from an adjacent county; the trip was organized, and likely funded, by my fr...

Valentine’s Day this year falls on a Tuesday. I have a standing trivia contest engagement each Tuesday evening, so I personally am unbothere...

I have, in recent years, avoided New Years resolutions altogether. Usually, a vow to lose weight and read more of the untouched or unfinishe...

Milledgeville—and indeed very nearly all of Georgia and I hope the South at large—awaits the arrival of the evening of February 5th. Right ...

Last December, I was heartened by an article in the Paris Review concerning "The Displaced Person" and David Griffith's abil...

In recent weeks, entries on this blog may have given our readers the erroneous impression that we were experiencing what the rest of the cou...

With our elementary and secondary teacher friends reopening their classrooms after the break and Milledgeville's collegians drifting ba...

On behalf of my colleagues at Andalusia, I'd like to wish all of our readers a Happy New Year.  We hope the holidays have found our patr...

As Advent fades into Christmas, I meditate on how the transition to Andalusia—brought on by circumstances nobody willed or could control—wou...

Previously in this space, I pointed out a few Andalusia-specific stories for some of our first-time visitors. These farm-centric works put A...