The Falls
The Falls In Giles County, Virginia, not too far from the quaint little town of Pembroke there is a place where the Little Stony Creek leaps and dances through the mountains for mile after mile. …
Outdoors
Getting Your Goat
Getting Your Goat When Americans visit other countries around the world those crazy foreigners sometimes treat us like we’re odd. They say Americans are rude know-it-alls who often don’t have any idea what we’re talking…
Mom was wrong?
Mom was wrong? Most of our mothers never intentionally lied to us. No, but they did tell us old wives’ tales. Of course, they did that to teach us young-‘uns things that would protect us…
What He Said
What He Said When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I bought a poster at the local Magic Mart. It featured a picture of a Native American named Sealth and included a few words…
Sweetwater Days 10, Part 2 – Heads Up!
Sweetwater Days 10, Part 2 – Heads Up! Well, the 2021 deer season turned out great. I got to spend a lot of time out in the woods and enjoyed time with one of my…
A Tale of Tails: White and Bushy
A Tale of Tails: White and Bushy The light was dimming as evening approached. My seven-year-old grandson, John, sat as quietly as he could, perched on a stool beside me. It was his first time…
Cheap but Worth Hundreds
Cheap but Worth Hundreds Even though Annie and I have been drinking water straight out of the spring for more than a year now with no ill effects, we knew from the start that it…
Mountain of the Dead
Mountain of the Dead In 1959 a group of eight men and two women planned an expedition, funded by the Ural Polytechnical Institute. Each member of the group was an experienced Grade II skier. Completing…
The Cleanliness Conundrum
The Cleanliness Conundrum What is going on here? Over the last century plus, people in “civilized countries”, especially those who live in cities, have improved their hygiene to the point that many people have very…
Some folks say, he’s up there still…
Some folks say, he’s up there still… As a kid I had a habit of checking out the magazine and book section of Magic Mart, which is where I most likely bought a book called,…