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Recent Field Trips to Andalusia
John Huston's Wise Blood on DVD
Podcasts of February Lecture Series, 2009
New O'Connor Biography
 Andalusia on the Southern Literary Trail
Special Issue of Shenandoah Devoted to O'Connor
O'Connor Postage Stamp Campaign
 
Completely revised website coming soon
After seven years, it is past time to overhaul our website.  We are very fortunate to have the services of Caroline Collier at the GCSU Multimedia Technology Center, which is the same person responsible for the original design.  Our website has served us well and has created a world-wide presence for the Foundation and Andalusia.  Our website consistently appears in the top five listings in Google searches for “Andalusia” or “Flannery O’Connor.”  We are working with Caroline and her students on content and design now and hope to have the new site up and running soon.

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Recent field trips to Andalusia

 

Craig Amason teaches kindergarten students from Creekside Elementary about the famous writer who lived at Andalusia.

 

 

 

 

Students from John Milledge Academy work on O'Connor assignments under the trees.

 

 

 

 

 

Craig Amason gives students from Baldwin High School a brief introduction before they tour the house and grounds.

 

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John Huston's Wise Blood on DVD
The Criterion Collection has issued John Huston's Wise Blood on DVD, which was just released in May, 2009. The movie originally appeared in theaters in 1979 and stars Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes. This special edition DVD features interviews with Brad Dourif, writer Benedict Fitzgerald, and writer-producer Michael Fitzgerald. There is a 26-minute episode of the television program Creativity with Bill Moyers from 1982, featuring director John Huston discussing his life and work. But the real treasured addition to the DVD is a rare archival audio recording of Flannery O'Connor reading her short story, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." This DVD is an absolute must-have for O'Connor fans and literary collectors. The cost of the DVD is $39.95. You can order your copy from the Andalusia gift shop at 478-454-4029. 

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Podcasts of February Lecture Series, 2009

The Foundation has sponsored a lecture series in February for the last three years, an annual tradition that continued in 2009.  The programs are held in the dining room of the main house at Andalusia each Sunday in February, beginning at 3:00 p.m.  A reception follows each lecture.  The events are free and open to the public.

The February lectures are available as Podcasts through a website hosted by Georgia College.  The Foundation is most grateful to Dan Hann, Assistant Director of the Digital Innovation Group at Georgia College, for recording the lectures and making them available as Podcasts.  Programs are available now (click here), but you must have iTunes loaded on your computer to access the programs.  iTunes is a free application for both Windows and Apple computers.  It can be downloaded at any time from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

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New O'Connor Biography
A new biography of O’Connor by Brad Gooch has been published by Little, Brown Publishers.  In Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, Gooch focuses on O’Connor’s friendships with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Walker Percy, and James Dickey, among others.  The book also explores O’Connor’s deep convictions as expressed in her communications with Thomas Merton, Elizabeth Bishop, and Betty Hester.  The book has received positive reviews in numerous publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Times, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Signed copies of the biography are available while they last in the Andalusia gift shop.  The book is $30.00 plus tax and shipping.  Order your copy today by calling 478-454-4029.

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Andalusia on the Southern Literary Trail
Andalusia is part of a consortium of organizations in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi that promote the life and work of 20th-century American fiction writers.  Most of these organizations operate literary landmarks, like Andalusia, that are open to the public and provide programming.  In March, 2009, these sites sponsored concurrent events featuring their writers, which included lectures, films, panel discussions, and more.  The Foundation partnered with the Flannery O’Connor Review to host several programs in March devoted to Flannery O’Connor and Alice Walker. 

The Foundation and the Flannery O’Connor Review are grateful to the Georgia Humanities Council, the Knight Fund for Milledgeville, GCSU Arts Unlimited, the GCSU Office of Diversity & Multicultural Affairs, and the GCSU Creative Writing Program for their financial support in making these programs possible.  For more information about the Southern Literary Trail, visit the Trail website and learn more about some of the country’s best writers, including Flannery O'Connor.

 

This project was supported by the Georgia Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly.

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Special issue of Shenandoah devoted to O'Connor

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O'Connor postage stamp campaign
The Flannery O'Connor Society (Modern Language Association) has launched a campaign to commemorate the life and works of Flannery O'Connor on a U.S. postage stamp.  The Society is joining efforts with the Foundation and several other organizations to petition the U.S. Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee to name O'Connor as the 26th honoree in the USPS Literary Arts Series in 2010 to coincide with what would have been O'Connor's 85th birthday.  WE NEED YOUR HELP!  Please print, sign, and mail the appeal letter (click here for text) to the Stamp Advisory Committee.  More personal letters, preferably printed on institutional letterhead, would also be very effective.  With your help, we can realize our goal of raising awareness of the life and works of one of America's finest writers in this exciting and well-deserved way.

 
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