Andalusia: the Home of Flannery O'Connor — Attraction in Georgia

My wife and I both enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor so we'd long wanted to visit Andalusia. We visited on a rainy Saturday. Because of the weather, we were the only group on the tour nonetheless, it was excellent. The tour goes throughout the first floor of the house, including of course Flannery O'Connor's bedroom, where she also did her writing. We enjoyed learning more about her life and seeing the space where she lived. The college has been working hard to preserve the house and it shows. We were really impressed by how many artifacts were original, especially the random nicknacks--this made it seem like someone's home rather than a museum. The guides (we had two) were excellent and really informative. Afterwards we wandered around the rest of the property, which served as a cow farm. Of course, we also stopped to see the peacocks! All around, it was a...

Andalusia is one of the remaining places in Milledgeville that captures the sacred nature of the area. As Milledgeville gets more and more commercialized, Andalusia is a good place to go to forget that no one in Milledgeville knows how to drive. Flannery O'Connor wrote amazing short stories about the beauty and darkness of life while living here and I can't tell if she is the reason Grace seems to hang off every tree branch, or if the charged nature of the air is what caused her to find redemption in even the deepest kinds of pain. Whichever it is, Andalusia is a resting place for the weary soul. Whether you go just to walk around the little hiking trail or you specifically set out to honor the greatest writer of the 20th century, Andalusia is the best detox for when you feel like your heart is covered in a thick layer of grit from the...

Worst interpretive museum fail EVER. We learned about the farm property and timeline, saw her clothing and her collection of miniatures, but learned absolutely nothing about her writing and why she is considered an important author. Not even a single passage! C'mon, folks. Sure, the die-hard flanno-philes probably got a kick out of it, but for those of us coming to learn about her, zippo, zilch. My friend and I have gone to countless historic museums across the state (including every single State of Georgia Historic Site) and we both agreed this was the worst ever--perhaps the most attractive one we've seen in terms of the building and landscaping, but the most content-deprived in terms of learning about Ms. O'Connor and her...