andalusia farm

We love Flannery O'Connor's short stories, and we stop at every literary site we can find when traveling. We enjoyed the hour we spent here. It's an old farmhouse. No, it doesn't have remarkable furnishings. Only a few rooms are open, but they are the rooms used by Flannery and her mother, including the bedroom where Flannery wrote. The desk and typewriter are not hers, as they are on the college campus along with her books.There is a three minute film. There are a few items for sale in the entry. There are lovely grounds you can walk too if inclined. No admission charge, just donations. Enthusiastic staff who talked with us as long as we wished to ask questions. A very nice visit at a place easy to find right off the highway.

Andalusia was a true sensory treat. We met some great friends to celebrate there anniversary and Andalusia was the perfect spot. Will certainly go back and highly suggest all try it.

Thought it would be better. The upstairs of the home was closed the day we visited, they did not have the film running about the life of Flannery O'Conner. There was not really a gift shop, which I thought was odd, as they could have sold her books. There was a small area In front with some items. But not much. There really was not much to see or do on the property. There is a trail you can walk, but we did not have time to walk it. The barn was just a barn, and the milking shed was not really anything to see. We looked in the windows and only saw broken down furniture, looked more like a storage shed and not a building depicting how it would have looked while the author lived there. I was also afraid there may be rats or snacks hiding in the broken furniture The other cottage on the property had recently been repaired, and they did a very good job , but that house had only a short write up on the couple who lived there, no furniture, only rusting old appliances and old tub, sink, and toilet. This could be a much nicer history attraction if they would give out the recorders that tells you about certain sites as you walk the grounds and also have the film running all the time. Was disappointed.

The "self-guided tour" which is the Andalusia Farm experience is not to be missed for fans of Milledgeville, Georgia's acclaimed fiction author Flannery O'Connor. You will be immersed in surroundings that echoed in her stories, and you will love it.

A beautiful farm that illustrates many of the influences on Flannery O'Connor's writing. Very nice trails. And excellent staff.

It's a lovely setting that obviously contributed to her creative expression. Well preserved and worth the visit.

Spent several hours enjoying the quiet charm and aura of one of twentieth century America's greatest fiction writers and essayists, Flannery O'Connor. Anyone who knows O'Connor's life and work will be touched by the home where she lived most of her life, surrounded by acres of farmland, peacocks, the milking parlor, etc. Wonderful staff, left us free to roam. Donation not an entrance fee.

Being a fan of Flannery O'Connor, visiting Andalusia was the highlight of our trip to Milledgeville. It was fascinating to walk the grounds and think about how O'Connor imagined her stories while she lived there.

It's a little hard to see the sign for the driveway - it's just little north of the huge Walmart. Once you are a few hundred feet down the driveway, you've stepped back in time. Anyone who has any interest in Southern literature and culture will find lots of interest here. The staff is helpful and informative and the grounds are great to roam around - don't miss the view looking up the hill and across the pond and up to the house under the huge pines and oaks!

I. Have fond memories of visiting Andalusia as a young man with classmates. It was a very special field trip for all of us but especially for me because it was my godmother's home. Mrs Regina O'Conner, my godmother, was the mother of Flannery O'Conner, the writer, and the reason so many visit Andalusia. If you are ever in the area don't miss a tour of this beautiful farm.

Go back in time in this old farm house where Flannery O'Connor lived and wrote her famous books. The grounds are rustic and not manicured - looks like it most likely did when she was there.

Andalusia is Flannery O'Connor's childhood home and farm on the North side of Milledgeville, Georgia. The home is a small farm house and has retained many of the original furnishings of Flannery O'Connor. The decor is very simplistic and the home is small so it doesn't take long to see. Outside the home, the farm stretches for acres and doesn't really afford any sightseeing other than perhaps a walk to the pond.

After being a fan of the late Ms, O'Connor's writing since I discovered her in college, I was finally able to make it out to Milledgeville. It was a pilgrimage, so your value may vary depending on your pilgrim status, but few could deny that it is a lovely old farmland in a rustic setting.One of the many glories of Flannery's writings was in her economy - very readable stories with variable interpretations covered in just a few pages. For that reason, I highly encourage others to dig out some reading prior to their visit or for the curious to pick a story or two out of "A Good Man Is Hard To Find". Then, when you see the dilapidated barn on the premises, you know it's not just a barn but the barn where the Bible salesman took the girl with the wooden leg. This simultaneous wave of emotions (pleasantness with a faint disturbing trace) makes one feel like they're living the fiction.And of course the fiction came from inside the house. There wasn't a tour per de but just a minute-long speech and a suggestion to watch a brief video. There is honestly not much to see inside the house - it's more a place to feel. There's a gift shop in the back where you can be the first person you know with a Southern Gothic bumper sticker.There are peacocks on the premises, a remnant of the days when Flannery had as many as 50 strutting their stuff. It's down to 3 now, and sadly they are caged but the guide says it's for their own good. It almost feels like a story.As for the rest of the area, you can roam around, but we didn't, deciding to go into downtown to see her grave and her church. By all means grab a beautiful hand-drawn map of "O'Connor Country" inside the house, which gives you clear directions of everything you'd want to see in Milledgeville.

I love this house, especially that it's been kept as it was when Flannery O'Connor lived there. Don't get hung up over the peeling paint, etc., but remember that it hasn't been renovated, just maintained for character. The curtains her mother sewed still hang at the windows. Real, not replicated. Imagine that! And of course, the peacocks are a big part of the aura surrounding her. I'd never read her books until I visited and bought her book of short stories. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" -- wow -- she was a gifted storyteller. I especially enjoyed seeing the kitchen and rocking on the front porch, chatting with my friends. It's a magical setting. If you love historic homes (and we all should!), don't miss seeing this one in Middle Georgia.

I want to start off by saying I'm a big Flannery fan, and this was my sole reason for visiting Milledgeville (which was a beautiful town, but I'd only heard of it because Andalusia was there.) The tour was short but informative, and there are live peacocks there too! The house has a lot of interesting Flannery photographs, and the tour guide was knowledgeable and friendly. The grounds are stunningly beautiful, also. I particularly want to mention that the gift shop was great-- if you make it here and have writer friends who would appreciate strange Flannery O'Connor gifts (I do) then you'll be pleasantly surprised. I would say, though, if you don't have a big interest in Flannery herself, you may be bored on the tour. No one would argue that the grounds are gorgeous, though!