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Our museum gets its name from our mailbox.

A family of wrens made a nest inside the mailbox for 214 Gordon Street in the 1880s while Joel Chandler Harris lived here.

Harris didn’t want to disturb the wrens, so he put up another mailbox next to it.  When wrens took over that one too, that’s where he drew the line.

We’ve got a replica mailbox outside now.  Last year I opened the mail one day and nearly fell over when I saw freshly laid eggs just chilling inside the mailbox.

This past month we’ve seen a wren going in and out of the mailbox.  One of our visitors caught her on film after she flew from the mailbox to a nearby tree.

I’m guessing it’s a girl.  What should we name it?

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10 Comments

1. 
   
   Kirk
   Comment // July 1st, 2008 // 11:32 am

   You should name it Mr. McFeely.

2. 
   
   Jodi
   Comment // July 1st, 2008 // 12:26 pm

   Wren-ay (or Renee if you want to be technical about it)

3. 
   
   Tim
   Comment // July 1st, 2008 // 12:29 pm

   Brer Wren?

4. 
   
   Rachel
   Comment // July 1st, 2008 // 1:37 pm

   The Ghost of Christmas Past

   or

   JCH Reincarnate

   or

   Senator Wren

5. 
   
   Ida Beth
   Comment // July 1st, 2008 // 2:32 pm

   Ester LaRose , of course.

   Or Jenny

6. 
   
   susie
   Comment // July 1st, 2008 // 2:49 pm

   I think you should name it Alice. Alice Walker Harris.

7. 
   
   Bryan Alexander
   Comment // July 1st, 2008 // 2:51 pm

   Expert pet-namer provides the following in no particular order:

   1. Princess 2. Goober 3. Toni macaroni 4. Ruthie 5. Lady 6. Drucilla 7. Anomaly 8. Miss 9. River 10. Noni

8. 
   
   lain
   Comment // July 2nd, 2008 // 12:21 pm

   You guys are good. Especially you, Bryan. Your pet-namer is a veritable fount of awesome name suggestions.

   Susie, your suggestion of Alice Walker Harris is pretty funny, but also a little weird because someone who you don’t know suggested the exact same name.

   We’ll wait it out to see if anyone else comes up with any more transcendent names and then name the bird.

9. 
   
   Emily
   Comment // July 2nd, 2008 // 8:52 pm

   Muse-original owner of house
   Queen Anne-
   Victoria
   Savannah
   Henrietta W. Grady
   Juliet-obvious Shakespeare ties
   Miss Sally
   Rosie-Roosevelt, Esther LaRose

10. 
    
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