Around the Banks

Change: it happens with us or without us. My brother and I took a Sunday ride and talked about many things, including change. We rode over to the farm, now mostly in planted pine, and talked about the seemingly endless rows of flue-cured tobacco grown by Daddy and Uncle Warren. It seemed to us who grew up in the august, unhurried age of another North Central Florida that our way of life would remain intact, but it didn't. It was rather like the lines on the silver screen in the classic movie, "Gone With The Wind": "Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind." And, as Gerald O'Hara said to Scarlett: "Land is the only thing that la