Tag: Flannery O’Connor
Artist Blair Hobbs celebrates Flannery O’Connor’s centennial with a new show at Spalding Nix Fine Art
Works from multidisciplinary artist Blair Hobbs will be on view at Spalding Nix Fine Art from March 14 to May 9 in Birthday Cake for Flannery—curated as part of the gallery’s ECHOES exhibition—in honor of the Georgia-born Southern Gothic writer’s 100th birthday. Viewers familiar with O’Connor’s singular body of work will recognize images, allusions and characters from some of her most well-known stories—Wise Blood, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” “Good Country People,” "Parker’s Back.”
Get lost in a story at Flannery O’Connor’s farm
Pay homage to the eccentric Southern writer at her circa-1860 Plantation-style home in Milledgeville.
Book Tour: Georgia
Visit the stomping grounds of Margaret Mitchell, Joel Chandler Harris, Alice Walker, and Flannery O’Connor.
The oldest Catholic church in Georgia gets a holy overhaul
Attorney Bill deGolian, who chairs the Friends of Purification, says the goal is to restore the church to its original condition, with reasonable upgrades such as lead-free paint and a bathroom.
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Good country music: Andalusia Farm hosts 11th annual Bluegrass Festival
While Flannery O’Connor probably could not have imagined her backyard overtaken by hundreds of banjo enthusiasts, it's safe to assume she wouldn’t have minded. The author, confined by illness to her family farm in Milledgeville during...
Flannery O’Conner becomes an unlikely fashion icon at Andalusia Farm exhibit
“Fashion icon” is probably not the first phrase that leaps to mind when you think of eccentric writer Flannery O’Connor. But O’Connor’s mother, Regina, was a talented seamstress who made a number of her daughter’s clothes.
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