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Andalusiafarm

  1. While in NYC in 1955, Flannery O'Connor agreed to meet Fred Darsey, a correspondent who had escaped from the Milledgeville State Hospital.
  2. Work on the Hill house is moving right along and should be finished by the first of July. Now it's time to start working on the cow barn!
  3. "I think she remembered everything anybody ever told her." Jack Thornton about Flannery O'Connor andalusiafarm.org/news_events/or…
  4. The title of Flannery O'Connor's 2nd novel, The Violent Bear It Away, is actually a phrase taken from the Bible - Matthew 11:12.
  5. "She was effortlessly a Christian and clear in her assessment of her own work." --Cecil Dawkins about Flannery O'Connor andalusiafarm.org/news_events/or…
  6. Flannery O'Connor was awarded an honorary doctorate from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in June, 1963.
  7. Don't miss William Walsh TONIGHT at 7 at Andalusia for a presentation on John Huston's Wise Blood! andalusiafarm.org/news_events/wa…
  8. "Flannery was no more a mystic than I am. She was eccentric, but she wasn't a mystic." --Sister Loretta Costa andalusiafarm.org/news_events/or…
  9. Mary Flannery O'Connor was awarded a journalism scholarship in 1945 to attend graduate school at the University of Iowa.
  10. "If she had something to say, even though it might not seem all that nice, she said it." --Alfred Corn about O'Connor andalusiafarm.org/news_events/or…
  11. Great book-signing reception at Andalusia on 5-7-12 for At Home with Flannery O'Connor: An Oral History twitter.com/Andalusiafarm/…
  12. "She was very smart ... very much endowed with a wonderful temperament." Robert Giroux speaking about Flannery O'Connor andalusiafarm.org/news_events/or…
  13. While speaking at Notre Dame in '57, Flannery O'Connor met Thomas Stritch, who later gave her the music albums that are in her bedroom now.
  14. Flannery O'Connor had to start using crutches in 1955 due to deterioration of the top of her leg bone, a result of lupus and medication.
  15. We are anxiously awaiting Kelly Gerald's new book on Flannery O'Connor's cartoons from Fantagraphics.
  16. If you haven't visited the "Comforts of Home" website on Flannery O'Connor, we encourage you to check it out. mediaspecialist.org
  17. The New Yorker review of Wise Blood on 14 June 1952 was most unflattering, stating that O'Connor wrote with "dry, withered prose."
  18. Our biggest challenge this time of year is keeping the black rat snakes from getting in the peafowl aviary and eating the eggs!
  19. Great reading last night at Andalusia by Elizabeth Stuckey-French, author of The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady.