Uncle Remus Regional Library System Uncle Remus Regional Library System The Uncle Remus Regional Library System (URRLS) is a collection of ten public libraries located partially in the Atlanta metropolitan area and Central Georgia. It is headquartered in Madison, Georgia and serves the counties of Greene, Hancock, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam, and Walton, of which 35% of the population are members of the library. The library system is named for Uncle Remus, a fictional title character and narrator of many African-American folktales, whose stories were compiled by post-Reconstruction Atlanta journalist Joel Chandler Harris in the late 1880's. The logo for the library system is Br'er Rabbit,
Robert Roosevelt the United States Fish Commission. Roosevelt was a popular author and a friend of writers such as Oscar Wilde. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Barnwell" or "Ira Zell". He edited "Political Works of Charles G. Halpine", supplying a memoir (1869). Robert's nephew Theodore Jr. credited him with being the first to scribe the "Br'er Rabbit" stories (which had been passed down orally by slaves), "publishing them in "Harper's", where they fell flat. This was a good many years before a genius arose who, in 'Uncle Remus,' made the stories immortal." Roosevelt was first married to Elizabeth Ellis (1829–1887), a