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- Title: Places are Not Easy to Get Nowadays: At Home in Milledgeville and Oxford (60Th Anniversary - Flannery O'connor Issue) (Essay)
- Author : Jake Adam York
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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This part of Georgia rolls gently. In Alabama, I'd call this piedmont, though the alleys of tight-packed pine suggest what, in Alabama, we'd call barrens. I don't know what they call this in Georgia or even if they call it anything. The speed everyone is keeping suggests it may not matter. I'm headed into Milledgeville, which a billboard proclaims is Georgia's Antebellum Capitol. This is a political designation: it was Georgia's pre-Civil War capitol, and the building is still downtown. A plaque on the old courthouse explains that, when the Union Army entered, the state seal was hidden by some local hero--an act that testifies to the singularity of the Confederate imagination: as long as we retain the creatures of our rights, we retain them. The billboard's graphic, however, suggests that the city is the primary manufacturer of Corinthian columns and nineteenth-century mansions; "antebellum" could signify a style rather than era.