Sporting Classics Attends 2022 Game & Field Fair
Michael Pepi was present with a grand display of his family’s renowned taxidermy work. Here, he’s speaking some of with this year’s attendees.
On the weekend of April 1, Sporting Classics traveled to the mountainous region of Adairsville, Georgia, for the Game & Field Fair sponsored by The Pepi Family Studios and High Adventure Company on the Beretta Shooting Grounds for two days of sporting, firearm and art exhibitions at Barnsley Resort.
Grace Sturdivant fitting a client for her state-of-the-art ear protection devices.
Following and having evolved from last year’s premier installment, the Game & Field Fair activities were as entertaining as they were engaging, from rare firearms to shooting events to bird dog exhibitors. Echoing out from the tent of Southern Oak Kennels was the laughter of children as gentle blonde and black canines licked their palms. Huntress mothers and wives gathering about the Wren & Ivy custom made boots as men congregated around the fire, imbibing spirits and waxing on the tales of times afield as they waited to fire off a few rounds at clay targets.
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Young lady taking advantage of the firing lessons. One of many offered before and after the clay tournament.
Whether tracing with your fingertips the intricacies and textures of Christopher Smith’s bronze sculptures, eying and admiring the fine tailored suits of Leonard Logsdail, breathing in the fine wood aromas of Joe Julian’s carpentry, listening to the variations of sound as Grace Sturdivant fits your ear canals with the perfect hearing conservation and protection devices, or savoring the exquisite wild boar dishes fresh off the grill from Chef Sean Finley, the event was a supernova of the senses.
Bronze work from sculptor Christopher Smith.
What Sporting Classics experienced was something of a spectacular little planetary system of artists all pulled into the orbit of hosts John Burrell and Michael Pepi. These two gentlemen seem to have crafted their own strange and beautiful solar system, drawing in immensely gifted and immeasurably generous talents. We here at Sporting Classics are, for one, eager and excited at the thought of being brought in to the Game & Field Fair’s orbit, making many more revolutions in such a marvelous solar system of artists and wildlife enthusiasts.
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