Flannery O'Connor and Milledgeville: Collecting the Past presentation

The Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities will host a second symposium in support of its oral history project. Undergraduate students interviewed community members who lived in Milledgeville during the heart of Flannery O’Connor’s writing career (1951-1964) to provide important insights on life in rural Georgia, and they will share these highlights. The project has gathered information regarding experiences with class, gender, race, disability, the Cold War, religious beliefs, commercialism and old/new South mythologies in 1950s rural Georgia. All are welcome to attend and learn more about getting involved with this project, nominating someone to be interviewed and listening to the oral histories.