The Withlacoochee, Hillsborough, Peace, and a fraction of the Ocklawaha reach into the Green Swamp of West Central Florida. These four rivers each tell a different story.


Rivers of the Green Swamp collects these stories into one volume, bringing together student writing, scholarship, and favorite regional authors.


All rivers need friends like these, whose energy, mindfulness, and intelligence have created a body of work that is sturdy and lasting.


This vivacious and pleasing book is a true collaboration, the product of visionary professors and their students, and
consequently, it possesses the richness of an artifact of many hands. What greater scholarship than that of place? What loftier classroom than nature? In the end, a river is the ultimate teacher.  

                        - Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood




Here's all I'm going to tell you about this cool book: It makes me want to get up early, I mean before seven a.m., make myself a peanut butter sandwich, fill the thermos with cafe con leche, load the canoe and drive like hell to the Hillsborough River, which happens to be the nearest to my house.


Did I mention my flyrod? I'll take my flyrod, cast a bumblebee popping bug at the lily pad next to the cypress stump, try to fool a largemouth bass.


I feel sorry for people who believe real Florida is gone. What are they thinking? They should read this book and head for the nearest river. 

                       - Jeff Klinkenberg, St. Petersburg Times




Contributors: Bill Belleville, Raymond O. Arsenault, Gary R. Mormino, Donna Self, Darien Cavanaugh, Thomas Hallock, Merle Allshouse, Monica Rowland, Lee Irby, Meeghan Kane, Darien Cavanaugh, Albert W. Vogt III, Nevin Sitler, Joe Guidry, Lucy D. Jones, Edward Woodward, Terry Tomalin, Judith Redfern 



For information go to http://www.stpt.usf.edu/tbwn
                      

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Bill Dudley, the voice of the Florida Humanities Council recently talked about the Green Swamp with Paddle & Path’s Editor and Co-publisher,  and others involved with the Rivers of The Green Swamp anthology.