Like a lot of people in a lot of families, playwright Aaron Coleman grew up hearing the stories of Brer Rabbit, the cunning character from African folklore who outsmarted his animal adversaries. These ...

Inside the house is a charming collection of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit memorabilia nestled among furniture and rugs that were in the house when Harris died in 1908. Book shelves are full of first ...

GEORGIA AUTHOR JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS’ “Uncle Remus” stories were first published in 1880. These interpretations of the African folk tales Harris heard told by slaves are narrated by the fictional Uncle ...

Georgia last week began raising $100,000 to build a monument to one of its two great literary heroes, the late Joel Chandler Harris, author of the “Uncle Remus” stories.* Throughout the State’s public ...

Curtis Richardson hops around the front parlor of the 140-year-old house, animatedly recounting the enchanting tales of Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf. The elementary school students in the room shriek ...

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How old were you when you recall hearing the story of Brer Rabbit — a trickster character who lived by his wits, getting out of potentially life-ending scenarios by being crafty enough to out-think ...

Brer Rabbit has appeared on the front page a few times in recent weeks, so I guess that proves you can still make the news even when you’re as old as dirt. A 3-foot-tall statue of the famous Uncle ...

EATONTON — When one of the city’s Brer Rabbit statues vanished from in front of the Uncle Remus Museum three weeks ago, locals feared the worse. Had their beloved town mascot been melted down for ...

A: Uncle Remus is the fictional narrator of the Brer Rabbit folktales, created in the late 1800s by a White man named Joel Chandler Harris. In the later part of the 1800s and the first half of the ...