Remish (Location Key)

"Remish" is the "manufacturer's name" of the "compact smallish" organs that Ratliff peddles around Yoknapatawpha during the period after World War II (87). He makes the instrument so popular that a part of the county - "a small collection of houses near a small store a few miles from Frenchman's Bend" (87) - decides to declare itself a town named "Remish." Historically, organs built for home entertainment enjoyed a vogue during this period, but if Faulkner has a real brand of instrument and a real southern hamlet in mind, we haven't been able to identify them.