Remembering Suwannee: Summer in the winter time

Eric Musgrove Contributor In my research, it is interesting to find period articles dealing with Suwannee County and the surrounding area. Today, we have television, the internet, and a host of other media that allow us to instantaneously transmit information on a particular subject around the world. Nearly 135 years ago, such was not the case. Sure, there were some telegraph and telephone lines in the more populated areas, but unless you were in a very large city (i.e., New York City, Philadelphia, Boston), you couldn't just go down to your local chamber of commerce to get information on businesses, recreational facilities, etc. Instead, much information was published and distributed