One of the nation's finest writers, Flannery O'Connor, was born on this day in Savannah, Georgia in 1925. Here is my blog entry from last year. Can't improve much on that entry; however, this informal video made by a visitor touring her farm, Andalusia, will elaborate:
I recently learned that the peacocks roaming the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, a Trappist community about three miles from my home, are descended from those at Andalusia. The story goes that there was no place for the peacocks at the farm after her death in 1964. The monks were quite happy to give them free range on their large estate. It's a pleasing link to O'Connor, reinforced by the ancient Catholic tradition of the peacock as a symbol of immortality.
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