Around the Banks

My article has a caption above it, "Around the Banks," and just to be clear, it doesn't mean I am traveling from First Federal to Lafayette State Bank and then to TD. It means "Around the Banks of the Suwannee," a river that touches all the counties in our area and a river that is dear to most of us. Stephen Foster immortalized the river when he wrote "Old Folks at Home," the state song of Florida. He never saw the river, but when he took his pen, scratched through Pee Dee and changed it to "Swanee," musical history was made. A friend recently made a short trip to Savannah, Ga., staying at the Marshall House in the Juliet Gordon Lowe suite. I texted and related to her that Juliet Gordin L