Uncle Remus Museum celebrates 60th anniversary

PUTNAM COUNTY

  • The Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton. IAN TOCHER/Staff
    The Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton. IAN TOCHER/Staff
  • Georgia Benjamin-Smith with her “critter” friend Brer Rabbit outside the Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton.
    Georgia Benjamin-Smith with her “critter” friend Brer Rabbit outside the Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton.
  • Local historian and Uncle Remus Museum board member Jim Marshall stands alongside the replica blacksmith shop that was built as an Eagle Scout project. IAN TOCHER/Staff
    Local historian and Uncle Remus Museum board member Jim Marshall stands alongside the replica blacksmith shop that was built as an Eagle Scout project. IAN TOCHER/Staff
    The Briar Patch critters would be proud. After debuting in 1881 within the pages of Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, a book written by Putnam County’s own Joel Chandler Harris, the Uncle Remus stories and their characters – pardon me, the critters – remain active and relevant as the main attraction of the Uncle Remus Museum at the southern entrance to downtown Eatonton, whic...

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