Middle Georgia Tour: Georgia College and Memory Hill Cemetery

From Andalusia (yesterday's post), my pilgrimage continued into downtown Milledgeville to visit the Flannery O'Connor Room at Georgia College.  We parked by the front campus and walked across to cut through the main part of the campus to the library.  There were, of course, lots of students on the lawn and even a class in …

Middle Georgia Tour: My Flannery O’Connor Pilgrimage to Andalusia

I'll begin this post with an admission.  When I was in college in Milledgeville, I thought we mainly studied Flannery O'Connor's work because she was an alumna of the college.  I didn't completely realize that she was a significant American writer until I taught English and found her work in every American literature textbook, along …

Middle Georgia Tour: Visting Brer Rabbit

From Rock Eagle it was on to see Brer Rabbit.  We got back on US 441 and drove south to Eatonton.  Those 30 years ago, I always enjoyed seeing Brer Rabbit out front when I drove by the Putnam County Courthouse.  So I wanted to stop there for a photo opportunity. We parked and went …