The Georgia Writers Museum is accepting written work for their Creative Writing Contest.

Deadline to enter is August 15.

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I have to say that I am so enjoying life on the farm. Well, not life as in the kind of day-in-and-day-out life that Flannery and her mother lived at the farm, but the kind of work-a-day life that characterizes a professional career in the museum world. Those of us who work at historic house museums and historic sites know well the ways in which ALL aspects of the place seep in to your consciousness. It is a daily delight for me, as I go about 'bidnis' at the farm, to experience themes and images from Flannery’s writing (fiction and non-fiction) that was so shaped by place: Andalusia, Milledgeville, and Middle Georgia. Some of the behind the scenes tasks of ‘opening up’ the farm for visitors take me directly into Flannery’s fiction and her letters. When I swing open the big door and enter the now defunct milking parlor in the Cow Barn the ghosts of cows with names like Scotty, Big Margie and Primrose seem to lurk at the edges... Read More

Allied Arts invites the public to view “Works from Allied Arts Permanent Collection” on display at the Marlor House now through Friday, August 1.  Allied Arts permanent collection contains over 175 pieces of artwork by local, regional and nationally recognized visual artists. According to Program Coordinator, Brian Renko “This exhibit includes thirty four pieces done in a wide variety of media, styles and subject matter. I have included oil and water color paintings, photographs, sculpture and mixed media pieces in this showing of the collection.”

New artworks on display include an artist signed print titled “Prisoner Leaning on His Chains” by Francisco Goya and an etching by Fritz Eichenberg. Other artists represented in this exhibition include, Sara Finney, Betty Bivins Edwards, Cookie Noel and Sterling Everett.