Portrays, from the photographs and notebooks of Francis Harper, the ballad singers, fiddlers, hunters, and down home philosophers of the Okefinokee Swamp.

Francis Harper and the people of the great swamp -- The way to Billys Island -- Okefinokee sampler -- Okefinokee folk -- Potions, portents, ballads, and tales -- Okefinokee album -- Swamp talk -- Of mammals and birds -- Chessers Island journal -- Notes on a vanishing breed.