The Goat Man

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Charles McCartney, also known as the "Goat Man," was a folk figure in Georgia for four decades in the mid-twentieth century. He likely inspired some of the characters in Flannery O'Connor's fiction.

Courtesy of Special Collections & Archives, Georgia State University Library, Southern Labor Archives.

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