Prelude

[Stephen Graf]

#3656

There are a bunch of good articles in the current magazine. Salute to the staff of TBM!

Just finished reading Prelude by Kevin Kennedy. Reminded me of my version of the story which took place around 1980, also beside the tracks. There was a big spot of woods between pilot mountain, phoebe pond, and the tracks.

Phoebe pond was used to water steam engines back in the day. When I was a boy it was a good place to catch snapping turtles and blue gill.

Spent 3 days camping in the woods under a lean-to with my best grade school chum. We brought no food, only a stew pot and bows and string and a sleeping bag and a knife. We camped next to a big creek and shot crayfish out of it to eat. BIG ones. But still, eating crayfish for 3 days gets old.

Missed a shot at a rabbit. Rained almost continuously. Glow worms crawled over us all night long. His mom picked us up at the back of the grave yard at dark on the third day.

Dang I wish I could do that again (as a kid not an old fart, I’m not THAT crazy)

Thanks for the recollection!

[Col Mike]

#23585

Concur that was a great one and agree the TBM staff did another superb job.

Darn remember late fall winter hunts with that old 35# recurve fiberglass arrows and bear razor heads and don’t forget that brand new pair of WW11 leather combat boots –likely the coldest foot ware ever invented. But the bunny boots were not cool and way to much at the surplus store.

Sneaking into the city park at sunset to shoot big fox squirrels and running back to our winter camp by the river—never saw a deer–but that was IN 1964.

Semper Fi

Mike

[Ptaylor]

#42040

Yep I am really enjoying this issue of TBM. I’ve been reading it slowly, 1 article/morning before work. Seems like every single feature represents the best of why we do it the way we do out there. Nice work TBM.

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