Museums

May, 1977

Southern novelist Flannery O'Connor was only once tempted to travel Hollywoodward. In her first book, Wise Blood, she put a character who spots a mummified humanoid in a natural-history museum, wrests the tiny ancient from display and bears it about, trailing cerements, convinced that it's the Messiah. So when O'Connor heard that the Roy Rogers--Dale Evans Museum, a fortlike structure 100 miles east of Los Angeles, offers to public view America's favorite palomino, Trigger--stuffed--she was sore...