Way down in the farthest reaches of Georgia along Highway 441 -- way, way, way down yonder at the Florida state line -- there's not much to see except a gazillion acres of the deepest, thickest woods ...

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 ...

"Way down upon the Suwannee River ..." "That song is something that everybody learns as a kid ... and it just sticks in their mind," says Chris Brown, a canoe outfitter on the river. "I think that's ...

Way down in the farthest reaches of Georgia along Highway 441 — way, way, way down yonder at the Florida state line — there's not much to see except a gazillion acres of the deepest, thickest woods on ...

ABOUT eighty-four years ago, at his home in Pittsburgh, a young man named Foster was trying to write a song. ‘I want the name of a river in the South with two syllables in it,’ he said to his brother ...

Of all the excellent recordings released in 2004–and believe me, amid all the crap, there were lots of treats–one of the most charming was Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster, on which ...

SUWANNEE, Fla. -- Evening was settling over the Suwannee River. It was a fine time to savor surroundings washed in soft light. From the aft deck of a houseboat, I ...