Flannery O’Connor’s Andalusia gets a new steward

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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