O'Connor Institute

Join Professor Emeritus Bruce Gentry on for a book club discussion of one of O'Connor's only short stories about the civil rights movement. The event will be held on Thursday, March 26, in person at 2 p.m. in Eatonton at the Georgia Writer's Museum on the square. Or join us for the evening online discussion at 7 p.m. Email oconnorinstitute@gcsu.edu for the link. 

Join us March 25 from 7:30 until 10 p.m. in celebrating Flannery O'Connor's 101st birthday outside on the lawn at Andalusia Farm Interpretative Center. John Huston adapted O'Connor's 1953 novel in 1979, and filmed it partly in Baldwin County and mostly in Macon, Georgia. Starring Brad Dourif, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor, Amy Wright and Mary Nell Santacrosce with a cameo by John Huston. Introduction by Professor Emeritus Bruce Gentry, with discussion afterwards. Birthday...

Karen M. Gravel is principal and director of Historic Preservation at Lord Aeck Sargent Architecture and Design Firm. She has worked on many historic restorations at Georgia College & State University's Andalusia Farm Property and Terrell Hall. She will present her assessment of the recently donated Cline-Florencourt mansion on Greene Street. Historically important for many reasons, this house was also Flannery O'Connor's home during her time in high school and college. Gravel will...

The Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities hosts the Flannery O'Connor Book Club with Bruce Gentry. Join us Thursday, Feb.19, to discuss O'Connor's first novel Wiseblood (second half or any of it). The event takes place at 2 p.m. at the Georgia Writers Museum on the square in Eatonton, Georgia, or online at 7 p.m. Email oconnorinstitute@gcsu.edu for the link. 

For the second annual Southern Gothic Lecture Series, Dr. Kendra Hamilton will give a lecture titled "Hoodoo, Voodoo and The Gullah Geechee People at the Nation's Founding." This is great context for the Ryan Coogler film Sinners. The lecture will take place Feb. 26 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, 221 North Clarke Street, Georgia College & State University campus, Milledgeville, Georgia 31061. It's free and open to the public. A reception and book-signing...