The Flannery O’Connor-Andalusia Foundation is proud to announce that the beautiful farm where American writer Flannery O’Connor lived and worked is now open for scheduled trolley tours for groups of 15 people or more booked through the Milledgeville-Baldwin County Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB). This literary landmark, which has been privately owned and closed to the public for decades, is accessible only for tour groups coordinated and scheduled through the CVB. The Foundation will soon begin renovation and restoration work on the farm buildings; therefore, visitors will remain on the trolley for the duration of the tours. The property will not be open for individual visitors or unscheduled tours. For more information, contact the CVB at 478-452-4687.

Andalusia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980, provided Flannery O’Connor with many of the landscapes and incidents described in her letters about life on a 1950s dairy farm managed by her mother, Regina Cline O’Connor. At Andalusia, the author also found the source of many of the settings, situations, and fictional characters that are the signature of her stories.

The Flannery O’Connor-Andalusia Foundation was incorporated in the year 2000 with a mission to encourage and promote an increased appreciation and understanding of the life, time, surroundings, and accomplishments of Flannery O’Connor. For more information, contact Craig R. Amason, Foundation CEO, Flannery O’Connor - Andalusia Foundation, P.O. Box 947, Milledgeville, GA 31059; telephone: 478-454-4029; e-mail: wiseblood@alltel.net.

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The Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina, announces the exhibition Susan Page: Ties That Bind set for April 9-June 15, 2003. The exhibition features recent work by the North Carolina photographer, who creates works derived from instant-film photographs that are toned, digitized, and applied to various media. It includes a new body of work involving women from the Bob Jones University community in Greenville. Ties That Bind and its accompanying publication are collaborations with the Emrys Foundation, in celebration of its 20th anniversary. Emrys promotes excellence in the arts, especially literary, visual, and musical works by women and minorities. For more information about the exhibition, see www.greenvillemuseum.org or call 864-271-7570.