Flannery O'Connor's Andalusia farm gifted to Georgia College

ATLANTA (AP) — The final home of Flannery O'Connor is under new management but officials at the Georgia university taking over the middle Georgia dairy farm known as Andalusia plan to keep the property open for public visits.

O'Connor, a Savannah native, spent the last 13 years of her life on the Baldwin County farm where she raised dozens of peacocks and completed some of her best-known works, including the short story collection "A Good Man Is Hard To Find."

Since it opened to the public in 2003, O'Connor fans and scholars made trips to the 500-acre farm and the home where O'Connor lived with her mother, Regina, until the author's death in 1964.