Home by the River
Archibald Rutledge was born on October 23, 1883 in McClellanville, South Carolina to Henry Middleton Rutledge and Margaret Hamilton Seabrook Rutledge. In 1907, he received a M.A. from Union College. From 1904 to 1937, he was a Professor of English at Mercersburg Academy in the mountains of Southern Pennsylvania. He returned to his old rice plantation home at Hampton in 1937.He began writing in his late teens until he was well past eighty. He wrote hundreds of stories and articles for magazines, as well as books of poetry and collected writings. Most of his writings are about the Low Country of South Carolina. He wrote about wrens, mockingbirds, rattlesnakes, alligators, turkey, deer and ducks. He also wrote about the land and people who lived during his lifetime. His writing is nostalgic with a profound love of the land and its wildlife.