{"id":769,"date":"2008-08-25T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2008\/08\/flannery-oconnor-in-milledgeville.html"},"modified":"2016-03-25T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:22:50","slug":"flannery-oconnor-in-milledgeville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2008\/08\/flannery-oconnor-in-milledgeville.html","title":{"rendered":"Flannery O’Connor in Milledgeville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
I took a short trip to Milledgeville to visit the house of one of my favorite writers, Flannery O\u2019Connor. After being diagnosed with lupus at a young age in 1951, she returned to her native Georgia to live the rest of her days with her mother at their farmhouse Andalusia outside Milledgeville. She died in 1964.\n<\/div>\n

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Andalusia was a functioning dairy farm where Flannery kept peacocks and wrote almost all her fiction work after1951. You can imagine her walking around the grounds getting inspiration for her country-folk stories.<\/p>\n

A fervent Catholic, she was born in Savannah in 1925 and lived her first few years across the square from the Cathedral of John the Baptist. Her mother, Regina Cline, belonged to a prominent Catholic family of Milledgeville that helped found Sacred Heart Catholic Church in the city (pictured below along with her tomb at Memory Hill Cemetery).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Her stories are of grace in a fallen world, the redemption of Christ offered to every one of us, and finding beauty in the most profane and grotesque situations. Even though many find her stories strange, I find that in her characters\u2019 awkwardness and weakness, we can all see a small (or sometimes large) reflection of ourselves.<\/p>\n

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Flannery\u2019s room and crutches at Andalusia<\/p>\n

All these pictures are mine, all rights reserved<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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