Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home, Savannah, GA
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Do You Reverse? (1932)
United States of America.
Introductory intertitle reads: Here's an odd fowl, that walks backward to go forward so she can look behind to see where she went!
M/S of a little girl who the narrator tells us is called Mary O'Connor (note: this is American author Flannery O'Connor as a little girl) from Savannah, Georgia (at least that is what it sounds like). Mary holds a chicken which she lifts onto her shoulder. C/U of the chicken as it walks backwards. Narrator claims that this is the only chicken in the world that walks backwards.
It looks pretty realistic and then we see geese and ducks walking backwards too so it is presumably a camera trick using film reversal technique. Shots of cows and horses seeming to walk and trot backwards.
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FLANNERY O´CONNOR (UN HOMBRE BUENO ES DIFÍCIL DE ENCONTRAR)
El genio lúcido y punzante de Flannery O'Connor alcanza sus más altas cimas en el cuento, género que elevó en la literatura norteamericana a una trascendencia genuina e incomparable. En sus historias aparece el ruinoso y decrépito mundo del profundo sur de su país, atravesado por la violencia, el odio y la religión, aunque también extrañamente tocado por la gracia y una extraña belleza que hace de estas piezas una lectura insustituible.
Flannery O'Connor nació en Savannah (Georgia), Estados Unidos en 1925. Falleció en 1964.
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) nació en el seno de una familia católica en Savannah, Georgia, en la zona del Sur de los Estados Unidos que se conoce como el «cinturón bíblico», de mayoría protestante. En este entorno vivió casi toda su corta vida. Con sólo dieciséis años perdió a su padre de la misma enfermedad degenerativa que ella padeció más tarde. Estudió en el Georgia State College, donde comenzó a pintar y a escribir sus primeros relatos. Tras una agitada estancia en Nueva York, decidió trasladarse a Connecticut. En 1950 comenzó a acusar los primeros síntomas de su enfermedad, lupus, durante la cual, y hasta su muerte, se recluyó en una antigua finca familiar. Allí escribió los libros de relatos A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) y Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965), así como las novelas: Wise Blood (1952) y The Violent Bear It Away (1960).
Famous Biographies: Flannery O'Connor
Today we're learning all about Flannery O'Connor, who didn't even let death stop her from winning tons of awards for her writing. Seriously, it took like ten years for them to stop coming in.
Tybee Island and Savannah GA - Visit with Queen of the Sugar Shack
Took the r-pod to Tybee Island Campground (excellent). We visited the Tybee Beaches and restaurants, then spent 4 days in downtown Savannah, scoping out the squares, heritage and haunted houses. Savannah is said to be the most haunted city in America. I believe it.
Among these shots are the Old Pink House, Flannery O'Connor's childhood home, the house from which Walt Disney modeled Disney's haunted mansion, and Laurel Grove Cemetery where Baby Land marks where scores of babies who died during the influenza epidemic are buried in unmarked graves, and James Pierpont (the composer of Jingle Bells) is buried. Many haunted sites appear here including the Kehoe House, the Pirates House, Mercer House and Old Candler Hospital (creepy).
Lots of folks having fun ... standing in line to enter Paula Dean's Lady and Son's Restaurant, dancing in Bonaventure Cemetery, feasting on a Low Country Boil .... And then .... throughout the video you catch glimpses of Bailea May ... the Queen of the Sugar Shack.
LCV Cities Tour - Savannah: Secession Banners - Georgia Historical Society
Secession Banners - Georgia Historical Society
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Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, she wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. Her writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.
O'Connor's Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was named the Best of the National Book Awards by Internet visitors in 2009.
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Historic Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville ~ Flannery O'Connor & Carl Vinson Gravesites
Milledgeville historian and auteur Midas Wilder offers the community this rare treat of a slideshow featuring historic and haunted Memory Hill Cemetery. Photos captured in Milledgeville, Georgia USA in 2012. Edited and Produced by Midas Wilder.
LCV Cities Tour - Savannah: Preservation of Historic Savannah
Preservation of Historic Savannah
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Savannah, Georgia, USA – Zauberhafte Architektur, Plätze, Geschichte und absolut tolle Kultur
Savannah, eine entzückende Kleinstadt, ist ein Traum im Süden der USA, toll für die ganze Familie, mit Piraten, Kulinarischem, Shoppen und einem lebhaften Flußufer!
A Good Hard Look, Ann Napolitano - 9781594202926
Heartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, these ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own courses through life. In the aftermath of one tragic afternoon, they are all forced to look at themselves and face up to Flannery's observation that the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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Old Savannah Trolley Tours
Old Savannah Tours, the best tour of Savannah
Flannery O'Connor Archive at Emory University, Oct. 7, 2014, Emory Libraries
Emory University's Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library (MARBL) recently received a treasure trove of materials from the Mary Flannery O’Connor Charitable Trust, including many never-before-available writings and drawings. Among the items in the archive are more than 600 letters from O’Connor to her mother, unpublished short stories, a prayer journal, family photographs and personal items.
C-SPAN Cities Tour: Macon - AHTV Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Chester Fontenot discuss the narrative written by slaves William & Ellen Craft. Fair-skinned Ellen disguised as a white slave master and William posing as her servant - negotiated heart-pounding brushes with discovery while fleeing Macon, Georgia.
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LCV Cities Tour - Savannah: Interview with Hugh Golson Andrew Low and the Sign of the Buck
Interview with Hugh Golson Andrew Low and the Sign of the Buck
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LCV Cities Tour - Savannah: Interview with Jack Romanos
LCV Cities Tour: Interview with Jack Romanos, Former President & CEO of Simon & Schuster
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LCV Cities Tour - Louisville: The Frazier Museum's Weapons Collections
See the Frazier History Museum's Weapons Collection -- including George Washington's rifle, Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick hunting gun used on his African safaris and Jesse James' revolver.
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Fairchild Botanic Garden, Founded by David Fairchild, Coral Gables, FL
AuthorAdventures.org's glance at one of the most beautiful places in Coral Gables, FL, established by world-renowned horticulturalist and author David Fairchild.
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Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, FL, Home of Martha Munzer
Martha Munzer was the first woman to graduate MIT with an electroengineering degree. She eventually made her home in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, where she became a high school teacher and author of non-fiction books. At age 90, she published a local history book about Lauderdale-By-The-Sea. Read more at authoradventures.org.
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C-SPAN Cities Tour - Albuquerque: Hot Air Ballooning
Explore Albuquerque by air as we go up in a hot air balloon to learn about the role these have played in the Civil War and beyond in our country's history. Albuquerque is the hot air balloon capital of the world and holds one of the largest hot air balloon competitions in the world each year.
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