In Always The River Flow, Jesse Earle Bowden has captured the essence of a boy growing up into young manhood in Florida's panhandle. He has brought to life in a series of vignettes, that intimate society which in the depression of the 1930s centered around the village store. A place where the purchase of a can of beans or a loaf of bread offered the day's opportunity to swap opinions on crops, and too often on the neighbors who were not present. He has given to the readers his own haunting heritage of a south whose sons were gallant in battle and defiant in defeat. Stout men who after death yet touched and shaped the lives of those taht came after them for generations. Bowden loves the woods, the streams, the hamlets and the beaches of his own northwest Florida. But first and last, he is a newspaperman with a passion for places, people, relative facts and events. In his easy and flowing style and the appreciation of a journalist for a well spun story, Bowden produces a book that both entertains with a liberal portion of humor, and evokes the nostalgia for the panhandle days of old that will never be again.