A Day on the Dolphin: An Unexpected Adventure

A Day on the Dolphin: An Unexpected Adventure

There was urgency in his voice. My grandfather and Ed Brower went below deck. The Dolphin’s bilge pump had stopped working. Water was coming in.     It’s a bright Saturday afternoon in Fairfield, Connecticut, just after 5:00; mid-April 1960. Daffodils bloom along the...
Frank Stick the Forgotten Artist

Frank Stick the Forgotten Artist

He not only left a lasting legacy of art and conservation for future generations, Frank Stick left the world better than he found it. The Golden Age of illustration, which spanned the first half of the 20th century, produced some of our finest sporting artists,...
Giant of the South Seas

Giant of the South Seas

“Sharks!” I yelled, hauling away for dear life. Time is probably more generous and healing to an angler than to any other individual. The wind, the sun, the open, the colors and smells, the loneliness of the sea or the solitude of the stream work some kind...
RIA Premier May Auction

RIA Premier May Auction

Rock Island Auction Co. gavels in $22 million in May! Rock Island Auction Company (RIAC) brought in $22 million in sales at its Premier Auction of 2023, which took place May 19-21! Featuring the Beaumont-Adams revolver surrendered by Confederate President Jefferson...
The River Collector

The River Collector

It was not a conscious choice, but it seems that I have been building a collection. It is a collection of trout rivers. The collection was started almost 50 years ago, the summer our family rented a cedar shingle cottage on a small Michigan lake. Lily pads filled its...
Babe In the Woods – A Good Sport

Babe In the Woods – A Good Sport

There are heroes in every sport and, more rarely, heroes who transcend their sport. Then there was George Herman Ruth. Babe. One word said it all — the greatest baseball player ever, a man who batted big and lived bigger. Babe combined incredible charisma with...