"O’Connor later wrote of herself that she not only had a “tin leg,” but also a “tin ear.” She was sent to piano lessons and tried her hand at the accordion and the bass violin, but it was never quite her bag. The only time her mother ever recalled spanking O’Connor was to make her wear hose to her first piano recital."

The Paris Review Daily | Flannery O’Connor and the Habit of Art

(Oh, looks like this is an excerpt from a whole book about O’Connor’s cartoon work; the full thing is coming out this summer! Exciting.)

Kinda love this 1978 TV news report from my hometown about colored vinyl and picture discs. (From the WDEF archives, which, whoa.)