News, Ga. town keeps Laurel and Hardy's legacy alive. (rail, driving, interstate)

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HARLEM, Ga. (AP) - A blink-and-you'll-miss-it town in rural east Georgia is the last place you'd expect to find the country's only museum dedicated to the classic comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

But anyone driving along Interstate 20 near the South Carolina state line can't miss the big brown sign pointing to the museum in Harlem, a sleepy hamlet of 1,800 founded 140 years ago along the now-defunct Georgia Railroad line.

Ga. town keeps Laurel and Hardy's legacy alive