and we'll go in and go on into mary flannery's bedroom. now, what's nice about the bedroom that we have here at the childhood museum is that all the pieces belong to the o'connors. regina held on to it all, had it in storage in millageville, and once a renter moved out in the early 2000s, the board decided it was time to go ahead and restore the bedrooms, so they were able to bring the bedroom furniture down. it may seem odd to find twin cots in an only child's bedroom, but this is what they could afford, so we are really appreciative of the generosity of cousin katie, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to live in a four-bedroom house. the bed closest to the window was a point of contention between mother and daughter. in those days, of course, there was no air-conditioning in the house, and this time of year mary flannery always wanted to roll the bed over to the window to sleep at night. that made a lot of sense. but if you come over here and look and see where, how close the roof is to the bottom of the window, they understand why r

last year, 2010, we received visitors from 20 foreign countries that know about mary flannery and her work and wanted to come here and visit the house. now, this bookcase belonged to the o'connors, and in it we're very fortunate to have two of mary's childhood books. we don't have them open anymore. she wrote in the books in pencil. we don't want that to today away, so we made photocopies of crucial pages in the book. she critiqued the childhood books. she wrote what she thought, and if it was not a good book, she was bold enough to go ahead and sign off on that. the other children's books we have here in the house were generously given to us by her cousin, and we have a photograph of mary flannery with them when mary was 10 in 1935. they were raised in the boston area and came to this area in the summer and gathered and had times together. mary was not allowed to write in their books and we're not sure how she felt about them. over here, we have a photocopy of mary's last report card here in savannah. she started out at st. vincents here in savannah, but transferred to sacred heart f

cousin katie his name was mary catherine flannery sens was very generous. when she heard that her cousin moved into an apartment, no, she on several pieces of property. this just being one. and so they move again. of course 1925. the house has been historically restored for the most part thanks to the generosity. we were able to do that two dozen 6-2 dozen seven. thanks to a student at savannah college of art and design and needed a master's thesis project for her degree. she did that paint analysis. so this is the color green actually on the wall when the a connoisseur here. she had to work and find out that they were gilded. that was because a cousin katie move again. will we have in the corner belongs to the o'connor's. and then on the other side of this we have a few more items that belonged to the o'connor's. this was very flattery's pram. we know it was a gift from cousin kate. fortunately it has suffered from being in storage for so many years. one of the great things about it is that true to a cousin katie's taste and everything we have very flatter