FILED IN: Memories
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Founded by John Barbour in 1894, the renowned British apparel manufacturer Barbour originally supplied oilskins and other garments to protect the growing community of sailors, fishermen, and dockworke...
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
It was half past noon and the day was sad and gray like the underside of a bat’s wing. The drizzling sky stretched unending from horizon to horizon and made......
Filed In: Dog, Memories, Personalities, The Sporting Life
Hang on, boys and girls, for I am about to drop some theology and psychology on you and hint at a possible reason why God made dogs. Not having been......
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Although he personally wrote two books of note on upland game hunting and edited two more, Eugene Virginius Connett (1891–1969) made far more lasting and important contributions to the literature......
Filed In: Experience, History, Memories, Stories, The Sporting Life, Travel
Gardone, Val Trompia, isn’t a tourist town. Though that part of northern Italy is thick with natural beauty—ragged mountains, shimmering lakes, rolling green valleys—and Gardone’s ristorantes ...
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Although he personally wrote two books of note on upland game hunting and edited two more, Eugene Virginius Connett (1891–1969) made far more lasting and important contributions to the literature......
Filed In: Culture, hunting, Memories, On the Hunt, Personalities, The Sporting Life
The last Friday of September, after weeks of preparation and packing, the Burb and the late-1960s vintage and timeworn Bell travel trailer known as the Road Abode were ready for......
Filed In: Memories, People, Sporting, Stories, The Sporting Life, Upland
Charley Dickey (1921-1998) was for many years one of America’s best known and most-loved sporting scribes. A generalist, he wrote on subjects ranging from deer hunting to trout fishing. However,......
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
It was the first weekend of February, the customary time for Paul and me to quail hunt with William on his farm in Early County, Georgia. All afternoon William had......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Memories, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life
Again I travel east, over a blue highway passing through big, open grasslands that stretch for miles. To my left, the mixed grass prairie extends north through much of the......
