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The Hunt

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Amos Beals was an immense man, at least to my little kid eyes. Distantly related to my grandfather, Amos lived out in the country on a hardscrabble farm, and was perpetually clothed in a railroad engineer’s cap, bib overalls, or “biblicals” as he called ‘em, and [...]

Flood Stage

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The four of us – Ron, Eddie, Roy, and yours truly stood a few yards downstream from Dam Four and looked at the river. In normal times, we would have been on a rock outcrop about 15 feet above its sleepy green translucent flow. In normal [...]

The Lion Sleeps Today

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Joggers and runners annoy me. Before my lovely bride Laura ventured off for several years occupying Afghanistan, allowing me to become a gentleman of leisure and relocate to my scenic country estate, we lived in an apartment in the city. While there, we acquired a canine, [...]

Old Joe

Hoofbeats In The Fog

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It was damp, it was foggy, it was chilly, it was perfect. My wife and I crunched our way across the gravel parking lot of the Jock’s kitchen heading for the racetrack. It was barely dawn and we’d just had breakfast with LaVette [...]

August in the Afternoon

Down and dirty

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It was hot, heavy, and humid at about three o’clock on that August afternoon. The air was totally calm, the sky slightly hazy, and I crouched in the dust, sweat rolling in muddy trickles down the back of my neck, a mask held [...]

A Note from the Author

Greg Hall

Several times in my life I have been fortunate enough to come in contact with extraordinary individuals. A few of them I have been proud to call friend. Such a man is Greg Hall. Greg is a “sports guy”. He knows more about the subject in two minutes than I [...]