Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Archibald Rutledge

Born: 1883
Died: 1973 (aged 90)
Bio: Archibald Hamilton Rutledge was an American poet and educator, the first South Carolina poet laureate from 1934 to 1973. He wrote over 50 books and many poems, usually about his hunting and life experiences in South Carolina.
Known for:
- Home by the river (1955)
- Life's extras (1928)
- Old plantation days (1905)
- Bird dog days, wingshooting ways
- God's children (1947)






