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Flannery O’Connor’s Andalusia gets a new steward

Newly hired executive director Elizabeth Wylie gives a tour of Andalusia, the Milledgeville home of author Flannery O'Connor until her death in 1964.
April 21, 2014

Andalusia, home of Flannery O'Connor. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays-Tuesdays and Thursdays-Saturdays (days and times subject to change). $5 suggested donation. U.S. 441, Milledgeville. 478-454-4029, www.andalusiafarm.org.

Elizabeth Wylie, an art historian and environmentalist from Boston, is the new executive director of the Flannery O’Connor-Andalusia Foundation. The organization oversees the 544-acre farm in Milledgeville where the author lived and wrote her Southern gothic classics, including “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Wiley’s first major order of business is the May 1 opening of the newly restored cow barn.

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