Dean Bortz: A tribute to friend Tom Coulthurst and our many adventures

I met Tom Coulthurst not long after moving to Wisconsin’s Minocqua/Woodruff area in June 1986 to work as a reporter at The Lakeland Times. It was summer. Probably 1986 or 1987.
I went to his taxidermy shop on assignment because Tom had hit a hole-in-one on a local golf course. The editor said we needed a story. On a hole-in-one? Someone got lucky. There’s no story there. But I went anyway without too much grumbling since I’d get to look at stuffed fish, too.

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