On the Southern Literary Trail: Part One—Andalusia, Flannery O’Connor’s Farm Home

March 5, 2013 · by Christina Kaylor | in Field Trips, The Writing Life | tagged Alice Walker, Andalusia, Civil War, Flannery O'Connor, General Sherman, Georgia College and State University, grotesque, Iowa Writers' Workshop, Joel Chandler Harris, Milledgeville Georgia, National Book Award, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Penn Warren, Sally Fitzgerald, Sewanee Review, Southern Gothic, Southern Literary Trail | 4 Comments

Here in the South, we are blessed to have The Southern Literary Trail, the nation’s only tri-state literary trail, featuring writers’ homes in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi—three states said to be perennially at the bottom of US literacy rates. William Faulkner was once asked, Why don’t more Southerners read? He replied, Because they’re too busy writing. […]

Literary Travel

February 8, 2013 · by Andrea Carpenter | in Field Trips | tagged " Author's Ridge, "The Red Pony, Andalusia, Concord, daffodils, Dove Cottage, English Romantic Age, Flannery O'Connor, Galiban Mountains, John Steinbeck, Lake District, Lake Grasmere, Literary Travels, Literary Vacations, Romanticism, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, St. Oswald's Church, Sunnyside, Washington Irving, William Wordsworth | 3 Comments

Almost thirty-five years ago, a vacation trip to California provided the genesis of a hobby that is now a source of infinite pleasure for me and often for my friends and family as well. Bob, my first husband, was driving as I navigated. As I studied the map, the old-fashioned kind that I still prefer […]