MYSTERY & MANNERS IN SAVANNAH - WAIT LIST ONLY

Selected works of Flannery O’Connor

DESTINATION
Savannah, Georgia, with excursion to Milledgeville

DATES
April 1 – 5, 2012 (4 nights)

READINGS
Short stories, occasional prose and letters

Description/Itinerary
To read Flannery O’Connor’s fiction is to be amused, provoked, and pushed to reconsider ourselves and our place in the world. A Roman Catholic and a native of Georgia, O’Connor created stories that inimitably blend humour, horror, and the mysteries of faith.

While her writing is richly specific, evoking the dusty back roads and quirky characters of the American South, it deals powerfully with universal questions: What does it mean to be good? How should we live? What is the meaning of death? How can the divine penetrate the everyday world? In her relatively short lifetime (1925-1964), O’Connor created a powerful body of work, including two novels and a number of short stories and nonfiction pieces.

Our base will be Savannah, O’Connor’s birthplace and childhood home. Here we will hold our discussions, visit the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Foundation and explore it this beautiful antebellum city’s striking architecture laid out around twenty- four squares. We will travel by private coach to Milledgeville, where we will be received
at Andalusia, the O’Connor family farm by a close personal friend of hers and Andalusia Foundation director, Craig Amason.

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ACCOMMODATION
The Marshall House

QUOTE
“She would of been a good woman,” said The Misfit, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

Leader
Nancy Carr is a senior editor at the Great Books Foundation in Chicago and is also a freelance writer and teacher of writing and English literature. This will be her fourth visit to O’Connor’s Savannah with Classical Pursuits.

Fees
US$1695 based on double occupancy

Fee includes readings, accommodation, two meals a day, discussions, walking tours, talks, excursions, and admissions.