Diorama Depicting Stephan Foster’s “Way Down Upon The Swanee Ribber” at The Stephen Foster Memorial on U.S. Highway 41 – White Springs, Florida.
“Old Black Joe” – a diorama depicting the vision of the voices calling “Old Black Joe,” dedicated to a servant in the home of Stephen Foster’s wife – 1860.
“Oh, Susanna” – a diorama depicting one of the nonsensical songs of Stephen Foster, which was published in 1848, and was adopted as the theme song of the “forty-niners.” Stephan Foster Museum, White Springs, Florida.
My family went to this museum one year on the way home from our annual trip to visit relatives in Illinois. I was thrilled with the surprise diversion at a point when I assumed the vacation was all down hill (no more Holiday Inn swimming pools or fun with my cousins).
ReplyDeleteI totally wanted to stop on my last trip to Atlanta but on the way up I was in a hurry to get there and on the way back my car was loaded down with stuff.
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