Georgia College Special Collections

Brianna Phillips has been our graduate assistant for the last two years. She leaves us today for the Ph.D. program (English) at UGA. We wish her the very best and hope she will come back to visit. One of our last requirements for her was to write a blog post about her adventures in Special Collections. Read about it in Dispatches from Penitentiary Square: https://dispatchesps.wordpress.com/

Commencement is almost upon us. Here's a snapshot of Commencement 1989

"If you're afraid of butter, use cream." ~Julia Child Wonder if cream is used in either of these cookbooks we just added to our Milledgeville/Baldwin County cookbook collection?

From Dr. Bruce Gentry: Please help spread the word: Proposals are being accepted for "Flannery O'Connor and Families," an American Literature Association Symposium to be held 17-19 June 2021 at the DeSoto Hotel in Savannah, GA. In addition to papers on the conference theme, we welcome papers on other O'Connor-related topics, such as how to teach O'Connor's works and O'Connor in relation to other writers. ... Our keynote speaker will be Minrose Gwin, author of The Accidentals and other works. Proposals and expressions of interest will be accepted through 26 March 2021. Please contact [email protected]. P.S. The new documentary Flannery screens Tuesday, 23 March, on PBS.

Hope you plan to watch it!

Helen Matthews Lewis is a 1946 graduate of Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College):