a foundation formed by family, writers and fans opened author mary flannery o’connor’s childhood home in savannah, ga and her later andalusia farm home in milledgeville to the public:

 

http://www.flanneryoconnorhome.org/main/Home.html

 

 

if you dont know her writing, start with her short story ‘a good man is hard to find.’

if you like that, welcome to the fanclub. we understand if you don’t like it, but we also guarantee you wont forget it either -- ha!

 

 

outside of her writing, i only knew three mythical things about flannery o’connor: she died at a young age due to lupus (true), her family kept her in a cage when she was young (not exactly) and she had chickens that she taught to walk backwards (true!).

 

 

mary flannery o’connor under her self-portrait painting

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O'Connor

 

 

below is o’connor’s childhood savannah home on lafayette square

 

 

 

 

you have to go with a house tour, but you are free to hang around afterward

 

 

 

 

 

 

this little georgia peach sitting at o’connor’s doll table is named flannery after....guess who!

 

 

 

so it turns out the cage was actually once a popular product to keep mosquitos and fever away

 

 

 

 

her baby pram

 

 

 

flannery often looked out her parents room window over lafayette square,

which was quite different back then, treeless and very crowded

 

 

 

more of her bedroom where she stayed with her grandmother

 

 

 

 

a report card and the beautiful backyard garden where she taught the chicken

 

 

 

 

* this is the fun and silly 1min pathe video of o’connor as a child with her chicken:

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/do-you-reverse-1

 

 

^ “When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken, but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.”

 

― Flannery O'Connor

 

 

unfortunately, andalusia farm in milledgeville, ga was closed when we stopped by  ;(

 

 

 

 

http://www.andalusiafarm.org/

 

 

*** i hope you enjoyed a little peek into this famous american author’s home life ***

 

A stunner.