Stephen Foster and the Suwanee River scored a victory Monday in the Florida Legislature. Old Folks at Home, also known as Way Down Upon the Swanee River, will remain the official state song, despite ...

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If you understand this, you are either advanced philologically or your Southern roots are showing. This regional expression, sometimes shortened to “swan” or spelled “swanny,” has nothing to do with ...

WHEN Stephen Foster, casting about for a more musical dissyllabic name than the Peedee of his first choice, hit upon what all the world now knows as the Swanee River, he could not have taken from the ...

Chattanooga held a special place in the lives of the late Buford and Merle Abner, original members of the legendary Southern Gospel group, the Swanee River Boys. In a 2007 interview, co–founder Buford ...