Today is the birthday of Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), best known today as the writer (more like the collector, really) of the Uncle Remus stories, a collection of African American folk-tales gathered by Harris on a Georgia plantation during the days of slavery and published in nine books starting in 1880. Chandler was a major […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:45PM on December 9, 2013