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Monday, October 30, 2006
Uncle Remus
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Get Schooled readers, please help out my colleague Jim Auchmutey…
“I’m doing a story on the legacy of Joel Chandler Harris on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the premiere of “Song of the South” at the Fox Theater. I’m wondering whether any local schools still teach the Uncle Remus tales or take schoolchildren on field trips to the Harris home, the Wren’s Nest. Disney has refused to release the movie on home video or DVD because some people might be offended. Is Uncle Remus too problematical for Georgia classrooms as well?”
For information about Harris and Uncle Remus, try here, here or here.
