Story Fair 2024

Curiosity and Hope: A Beginners’ Diary by Dan Neebes I am a new hunter. My grandfather would go away for a week every November for deer camp when I was young. He went for the comradery, to be near old friends and to be alone with himself as he held his rifle and sat motionless in a tree stand. To be completely honest, he wasn’t one for shooting the deer though. The last tag he notched was during the Bush administration, the first one. So, when I was urged to participate in Upland hunting a couple of years back by my...

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Written by Karl (trout whisperer) Seckinger If someone could be sired into the royalty of dog breeders, Wes was. His grandfather was highly esteemed for his exemplary training techniques with German wirehaired pointers, that at the time in his opinion were being overly trained, mechanical dogs, dogs with innate abilities being trained out of them over a hunters myriad commands and most often unreasonable expectations. The grand old man was a keep the dog a dog, a fine prey dog, guide them with a steady approach, not trained into a robot dog.  Wes’s father, a solid Brittany man, stayed in the pointier...

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