Listen Walter Parks Since moving to Webster Groves last spring, Walter Parks has spent much of his time writing and recording. After Walter Parks began researching his musical and cultural roots in southeast Georgia, he found a treasure trove of material in the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center. The library had preserved early field recordings of homesteaders in the Okefenokee Swamp region, where Parks remembers camping and exploring as a kid. “In 1945, somebody went up there [to the Okefenokee] with equipment borrowed from the Library of Congress, and they recorded them making the music that they make,” the writer, guitarist and vocalist told