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.
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, which last week cele…
