"When she was young, the writer Flannery O'Connor was captivated by the chickens in her yard. At age six, her life was forever changed when she and a chicken she had been training were featured in the Pathé News, and she realized that people want to see what is odd and strange in life. But while she loved birds of all varieties and kept several species around the house, it was the peacocks that came to dominate her life"--