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Forum : Vol. 17, No. 01 (Spring/Summer : 1993) University of South Florida Scholar Commons FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities Florida Humanities 4-1-1993 Forum : Vol. 17, No. 01 (Spring/Summer : 1993) Florida Humanities Council. Harry Crews Claudia Johnson Catherine Puckett Stetson Kennedy See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine Recommended Citation Florida Humanities Council.; Crews, Harry; Johnson, Claudia; Puckett, Catherine; Kennedy, Stetson; O'Sullivan, Maurice; and Reed, Nathaniel P., "Forum : Vol. 17, No. 01 (Spring/Summer : 1993)" (1993). FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities. 21. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine/21 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Florida Humanities at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Florida Humanities Council., Harry Crews, Claudia Johnson, Catherine Puckett, Stetson Kennedy, Maurice O'Sullivan, and Nathaniel P. Reed This article is available at Scholar Commons: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine/21 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lester Abberger Tallahassee Carl Christian Andersen FORUM Leesburg THE MAGAZINE OF THE FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL Margaret L. Bates Sarasota Samuel P. Bell Ill INSIDE Tallahassee Phyllis Bleiweis Gainesville 6 "None Prettier" Cecilia Bryant A novelist grows up beside Jacksonville W. Frank Cobbin. Jr. the Okefenokee Jacksonville By Harry Crews Myra J. Daniels Naples J. Alison DeFoor, II 8 The River of Passion Key Largo Francisco Jose de Varona The Suwannee meanders Miami into the human soul Thomas K. Equels Coral Gables By Claudia Johnson William T. Hall Jr. Niceville Lois C. Harrison 18 The Course of Time Lakeland A history of the region Thomas J. Hegarty Tampa By Catherine Puckett Mildred Hill-Lubin Gainesville Arthur H. Jaffe 22 Way Down Upon... PAGE 18 Boca Raton Observing folklife along Patsy J. Palmer Tallahassee the Suwannee Gordon M. Patterson By Stetson Kennedy Melbourne Yvonne V. Sapia Lake City 28 A Stream of Stories George ‘Harry’ Stopp, Jr. A sampling of Pensacola Frank E. Taylor Suwannee literature Key West By Maurice O’Sullivan Sally Collins Wallace St. Petersburg PAGE 22 32 "Our Responsibility STAFF ANN HENDERSON to the Earth" Executive Director A discussion of SUSAN LOCKWOOD Associate Director environmental ethics JOAN BRAGGINTON By Nathaniel P. Reed Program Director RON COOPER Resource Center Director Letters TINA HUNTER 34 Accountant PAGE 32 JANINE FARVER COVER: Invigorating suiphorous waters spill through the century-old floodwall at Suwannee Springs. When the wall was built, Membership Director Suwannee Springs was a health resort where trainloads of tourists came to take the healing waters. MARY MARGARET POSCHEL Administrative Assistant All color photography in this issue is the work of John Moran, a senior photographer with The Gainesville Sun. MYRA STONER Secretary ANN BOOKS THE FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL Administrative Consultant FHC FORUM Vol. XVII, No. 1 Spring/Summer 1993/The magazine of THE FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL Editor 1514 1/2 East Eighth Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33605-3708 Phone 813 272-3473 John W. Koenig The Florida Humanities Council is a non-profit organization, funded b’ the National Endowment for the Humanities, the state of Design & Production Russ Kramer Florida and private contributors. FHC Forum is published twice a year and distributed free of charge to the friends of the Florida Humanities Council and interested Floridians. If you wish to be added to the mailing list, please request so in writing. Views expressed by contributors to the Forum are not necessarily those of the Florida Humanities Council. © 1993 FHC GOD S OWN THE SUWANNE E RIVER BREATH, AND THE RIVER KEEPS ME IN is a treasure little appreciated by those of us who live in TOUCH WITH THAT," SAYS STEVE Central and South Florida. Our impressions come WILLIAMS, WHO RUNS . CANOE largely from the Stephen Foster song, "Old Folks At RENTAL BUSINESS AT WHITE SPRINGS. Home", with its opening verse, Way down upon the BELOW, PHOTOG RAPHER JOHN Swanee River, or a 10-second glance as we speed across MORAN. the river on an interstate bridge. Neither presentation captures the essence of the river. One of the missions of the Florida Humanities Council is to encourage better understanding of this state’s rural regions and minority populations. R With that goal in mind, we set out recently to explore the Suwannee River basin not in a geographic sense, but from the standpoint of the Humanities. We did not seek physical landmarks, but rather culture, history and literature. U We began this journey by providing a grant to John Moran, a senior photographer with The Gainesville Sun, to assist him in his decade-long effort to document on film the Suwannee region and its people. A photographic exhibit of John’s Suwannee work now is on display at the Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center in White Springs and soon will be touring Florida. U This issue of Forum is the second leg of our exploration. It displays dozens of John’s images, including some not seen in the exhibit, and several historic photographs that provide a sense of the region’s past. We invited a half THE SUWANNEE RIVER WEAVES dozen talented writers and scholars to develop articles THROUGH NORTH and essays exploring various aspects of the Suwannee. FLORIDA’S PINE FORESTS AND U The issue opens with Gainesville novelist Harry FARM FIELDS ON ITS 245-MILE Crews’ tale of his childhood around the Suwannee’s JOURNEY FROM THE headwaters, the Okefenokee Swamp, and his lifelong OKEFENOKEE SWAMP TO THE relationship with the river. Other articles include GULF OF MEXICO. Gainesville native Catherine Puckett’s discussion of the region’s history, writer! <Th folklorist Stetson Kennedy’s Okefenokee Swamp observations of folklife GEORGIA along the river, English FLORIDA professor Maurice O’Sul livan’s sampling of literature ,_ from the region, and environmentalist Nat Reed’s thoughts on environmental ethics. These all provide a more accurate glimpse of the Suwannee’s riches. U Our most important discovery, perhaps, arose from the work Otter Springs of writer Claudia Johnson, Fanning Springs who lives not a mile from the river in the vicinity of Live Oak, and who traveled rea ol the length of the river irLcr I1ttp I conducting interviews on our behalf. Through her work, we came understand that there is uniquely intense THE SUWANNEE to a CREATES A MOSAIC OF LAND bond between the Suwannee and its people. As she AND WATER AS IT ENDS ITS writes, "Passion is the reason people come to the river JOURNEY TO THE and passion is the reason they stay." U That passion SEA. for the Suwannee is transcendental. A century ago, it filled James Craig, an editorial writer for the old New York Telegram and Evening Mail, when he read a U.S. Geological Survey report describing the Suwannee as nothing more than an ordinary creek. He wrote this response: U "The real Suwannee River does not rise in any part of Georgia. It rises in the highest mountains of the human soul and is fed by the deepest springs in the human heart. It does not flow through the northern part of Florida, but through the pleasant, sunny lands of memory. It does not empty into a material sea, but into the glorious ocean of unfulfilled dreams ... The surveyors who would find the true Suwannee River must hunt not among the Florida streams, but among the majestic streams of infinite tenderness and love." "NONE PRETTIER" BY HARRY CREWS This strange, lovely and deadly middle of the day with the boat tied he Okefenokee Swamp place was where I went as a boy with up to a cypress knee, under a canopy is a blessing, a curse, a my Uncle Cooter to help him work his of leaves so thick it hid the sky and the stink and a wild fra trot lines, run his traps, haul his fish sun, I ate my lunch out of a syrup grance that heats the ing seines and cast his nets for craw bucket-a lunch almost always con blood and lifts the fish. sisting of biscuit, grits and fatback or heart. The Okefenokee’s black water Uncle Cooter poled a flatbot fried squirrel-and while I ate, I lis black until you hold up a glass to the tomed boat and was nimble as a cat, tened to Uncle Cooter tell stories, the light and find it pristine, utterly clear even if he did wear a walnut peg same stories given him by his daddy is home to at least 50 varieties of fish. where his right leg was before his and his uncles, stories of how strange This immense wilderness 666 square daddy shot it off in a hunting accident. birds from far places came here to win miles, some of it very nearly impene His people did not seem very con ter in the swamp, stories of how years trable gives refuge to deer, bears, cerned about the accident, saying, ago naked and painted Indians, Creeks wildcats, otters, raccoons and alliga every chance they got, that it was an and Seminoles, had made this swamp tors. White and golden lilies, cypress act of God. Act of God or not, a man their favorite hunting ground. I came and tupelo trees mark the interior of couldn’t plow a mule with a pegleg, to understand early on that my uncle the swamp with splashes of color. but he could turn to the swamp and had more stories in him than he had make a living there. life to tell them. So I listened as hard as Novelist Harry Crews’ titles include Eipi’14.a It was into this swamp that I was a little boy could listen because I some a book ofessays and short stories.
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