Hopping to Eatonton, Georgia
Get on the bunny trail in middle Georgia's literary crossways as Easter approaches.
From Place to Page: Rural Georgia Authors Tour
Inside the rural Georgia homes of authors Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker and Joel Chandler Harris.
Return From Georgia Lake Country
We were lucky to spend last Thursday through Saturday in Georgia's scenic Lake Country on Lake Oconee, visiting Milledgeville, Greensboro and Madison.
Literary Friday, Edition 51
More Gatsby eye candy. Pairing wine with books. The No. 1 book store in America. Tennessee Williams off Broadway. The Uncle Remus Museum returns to Turnwold. Edible Book Day, Bards & Brews, an intergalactic storytelling competition & the Southern Food Writing Conference in Literary Events. And a new poem in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
The Ironic Life of Joel Chandler Harris
Happy Birthday to the storyteller who preserved a piece of Southern folklore forever. by Hunter Murphy
Brer Rabbit Hops Home
As many of you know, we've been working on a Southern Literary Trail app for a while now. Due out on iTunes this fall, it includes literary sites across the South, from writer's homes to museums, gravesites, restaurants and bars and statues. So, a tweet on Sunday night that said "Br'er Rabbit statue stolen in Eatonton" caught our attention. Brer Rabbit is a character created by writer Joel Chandler Harris, who was born in Eatonton, Georgia, and has several sites there dedicated to him (as well as a house museum in Atlanta). One of those is the Uncle Remus Museum, named after the fictional narrator of Harris's stories. A site on our app, the museum is constructed of three Putnam County slave cabins and features a statue of the rabbit out front, with mementos, first editions of Harris's works and photos from Disney's movie version of Harris's stories, "Song of the South," on view inside. The 3-foot-tall, 250-pound statue of Brer Rabbit was reported stolen on Aug. 7. On Monday, the rabbit was found in the woods about 5 miles east of town. His pipe and left ear had been broken off, but otherwise he was in pretty good shape. The sheriff's