Andalusia, Home of Flannery O'Connor

Friday, July 14, 2017

Places of Pilgrimage

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For Bastille Day, we join George Piggford in looking at the O'Connors' pilgrimage to Lourdes. In spring 1958 Flannery O’Connor e...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

On Andalusia's Book Club

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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 ...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

On Father's Day, for Edward O'Connor

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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...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Bon Vivant Under a Hot Tin Roof

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In recent months, I have been a bit spoiled by uncharacteristically pleasant weather. A mild Winter made for a very long Spring indeed, and ...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Photography on the Farm

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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...
Friday, May 26, 2017

A Habit of Being Habit

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A confession popped out yesterday morning during the monthly meeting of the book club: I, the person attempting to lead this meeting of the ...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Collaborating with the Neighbors

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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...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Holding the Hand that Rocks the Cradle

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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...
Friday, May 5, 2017

A Weekend of Departures

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This weekend, Milledgeville and Georgia College say its annual goodbye to its graduates. Black robed figures will fill the auditoria and gy...
Friday, April 28, 2017

A Sanctuary's Sanctuary

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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...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Visiting Flannery

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For Good Friday, we are pleased to offer this poem by Alice Friman. --Daniel Wilkinson, Editor Visiting Flannery  Andalusia  Across ...
Friday, April 7, 2017

Rainy Nights in Georgia

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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...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Happy Birthday, Flannery!

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Today, we celebrate what would have been Flannery O’Connor’s 92nd birthday. Some new friends from Iowa making their “pilgrimage” to Milledge...
Sunday, March 19, 2017

Behind A Guided Tour

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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...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Lent on the Farm

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With Ash Wednesday on March 1st, the Lenten season has begun. Ashen foreheads were prevalent about Milledgeville on Wednesday, and no doubt...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

And the Award Goes To:

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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...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

On First Looking Into Flannery's Homeland

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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...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Valentine's Day on the Farm

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Valentine’s Day this year falls on a Tuesday. I have a standing trivia contest engagement each Tuesday evening, so I personally am unbothere...
Friday, February 3, 2017

(Mis)Adventures in the Arts

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I have, in recent years, avoided New Years resolutions altogether. Usually, a vow to lose weight and read more of the untouched or unfinishe...
Friday, January 27, 2017

The Sporting "Distractions"

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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 ...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Flannery in the Time of Politics

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Last December, I was heartened by an article in the Paris Review concerning "The Displaced Person" and David Griffith's abil...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Porch Life

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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...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Learn by Living

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With our elementary and secondary teacher friends reopening their classrooms after the break and Milledgeville's collegians drifting ba...
Friday, December 30, 2016

A Happy New Year on the Farm

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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...
Friday, December 23, 2016

Christmas in the Bird Sanctuary

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As Advent fades into Christmas, I meditate on how the transition to Andalusia—brought on by circumstances nobody willed or could control—wou...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Reading for Milledgeville

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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...
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Andalusia, Home of Flannery O'Connor
Andalusia is the historic home where American author Flannery O'Connor lived from 1951 until her death from lupus in 1964. This is where she was living when she completed her two novels and two collections of short stories. Andalusia is open to the public Thursday through Sunday from 10am to 5pm. For more information, call 478-454-4029. Blog contributors include Executive Director, Elizabeth Wylie, and a variety of scholars and authors. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Andalusia Farm.
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