The Smith-McCullers House Museum is where Lula Carson Smith spent her formative years 10-17 and here she began to write, putting on shows in the two sitting rooms, using the sliding doors as curtains and drafting brother Lamar and sister Rita as actors on Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Columbus. The family of author Carson McCullers moved to this house in 1927. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM