The Whisper in the Grey of Morning

The Whisper in the Grey of Morning

“I Knew your son. Something I been needing to tell you . . . Luke saved me — you know, saved my life. He saved us all.”  America had been attacked with a murderous sucker punch. That day of infamy stirring the deep soul of a patriotic nation.Lines of young men eager...
Where the Sporting Life Lives

Where the Sporting Life Lives

Where the Sporting Life Lives Brays Island, located in the heart of the South Carolina Lowcountry, is a sporting community with a unique history, dedicated to preservation and a love for life outdoors. SPONSORED CONTENT: Brays Island is a sporting enthusiast’s dream...
Call Time and Casting Call Win National Awards

Call Time and Casting Call Win National Awards

The 14,000-member Non-Fiction Author’s Association bestowed Gold Awards for Chris Dorsey’s wingshooting book Call Time and fly-fishing book Casting Call. Call Time was also nominated for the coveted Ben Franklin Award among a field of 1,900 entries from the...
Gathered Rocks Placed Around and Over

Gathered Rocks Placed Around and Over

Ben shouted the Indian’s name until his throat became raw. Much later, on the far side of the camp in rock shadows, he found a note held down and partially hidden by rock. Ben Choat, the lean, dark-skinned river guide, met the old Indian at the railing entrance...
Gilled Glutton – Weird Wildlife Weekly

Gilled Glutton – Weird Wildlife Weekly

Gilled glutton leaves anglers scratching their heads after a pike was found dead with a zander — a fish of similar size — jammed in its mouth in the Netherlands. While in his boat doing some work by the jetty near his home, Rene Spaargaren, from Almere near Amsterdam,...
Deep Feelings

Deep Feelings

In many ways John Hamberger was more an impressionistic artist than a painter of fish portraits. On the vintage plaster of the kitchen wall, left of the table where winter window light refracts through a collection of old pop bottles, is taped a snapshot of a man...
Cusp of Summer On a Carolina Day

Cusp of Summer On a Carolina Day

There is nothing more apt to illustrate life than a stilt house hovering over water set to the rhythm of a spring tide. A friend of my granddad’s used to sit on our porch in a wicker rocking chair and watch the creek go by. That creek is part of the Elizabeth...
Places to Be Sensed and Senses to Be Placed

Places to Be Sensed and Senses to Be Placed

Here’s the portfolio; look what’s inside. People are known for doing the one thing at which they are best. That’s what we were telling the artist one afternoon in his studio with the window as big as The Ritz. There are well-known western artists and...
Beyond the Boundaries

Beyond the Boundaries

“But there was something there — a different kind of contemporary realism.” Imagine for a moment that you and I are with artist Adriano Manocchia, relaxing on Adirondack chairs under the eave of the porch at his house in Cambridge, New York, a double haul...