MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. ― On Greene Street in historic Milledgeville, across the lawn from the old Governor’s Mansion, is a charming Southern house with plantation shutters framing the windows and four white Corinthian columns ascending toward a small attic window. If one could peer through its frame and into the past, they would likely find Georgia author Flannery O’Connor as a teenage girl.
She would probably be sitting behind a tall clerk’s desk crafting linocut cartoons or drafting stories for her high school paper the Peabody Palladian. She might be escaping the frenzy of visitors at the house where her mother Regina and three unmarried aunts entertained guests for Sunday lunches or afternoon tea. Outside, O’Connor’s pet geese might be roaming the lawn.
