What’s new right now is that Donna Rai’ and I are anticipating a great mini-vacation later this month in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. We’ve got a “rustic” cabin rented and plan to use it for evening campfires and … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Writing
I’ve written here before about growing up country in rural Mercer County back in the 1960s, but I haven’t told everything. Usually I write about other people’s embarrassing moments, but today I’ll tell a story on myself, and it’s a … Continue reading
Right now the F-Troop Camp faithful are looking forward to the traditional trout season opening day coming up on the 14th. Even though we know you can fish right now for wild trout on un-stocked streams that are not … Continue reading
Hello from frigid Sharon, PA, on this record-setting morning with wind chills of twenty below. What’s new right now is that we’re adding a second page of great outdoor pictures to the “photo” section on the web site. They … Continue reading
Hi, this is Don. I’m going to use this page on the web site to communicate what’s going on lately in my writing, such as ideas for newspaper columns (for which readers can share suggestions, if they choose), magazine … Continue reading
It doesn’t get much better than this. The alarm rang at 4 a.m. and I jumped right out of bed — I’m like a kid at Christmas on the opening day of deer season — and made my way downstairs … Continue reading
I opened a back issue of the Pennsylvania Game News the other day and was immediately confronted with an article on Deer Harvest Numbers. I wondered — how did this word “harvest” come into practice as a reference to hunting … Continue reading
Outdoor writers Ben Moyer, Gregg Rinkus and I caught 100 trout over a short weekend in the Allegheny National Forest recently, or perhaps we caught 50 fish two times each, so hungry and aggressive were these wild native brookies. But … Continue reading
Last week I went for a drive around the old Lamor and Robertson Road neighborhood, which is a prosperous Hermitage suburban landscape now, with well-kept homes and macadam side streets where decades ago my brothers and I roamed woods and … Continue reading