Editor’s note: Six or seven years ago, I asked our more senior writers to pencil up something about their lives for me so that when the day came, heaven forbid, we could publish their last words or thoughts. Not an obituary, per se, unless that’s what they wanted to submit.
Storyteller for the ages, Donald Bluhm, spins his final outdoors tale Read More »
If November played football, it would be a pulling guard leading the ground attack, flattening the first defender and telling the rest of them to get out of the way because winter is on the horizon and no one messes with winter in Wisconsin.
November also is a month of pilgrimage, a journey to a holy place for many in Wisconsin, to the deer camp, an institution of wonder and history – a place that sits among all the good things that make life a worthy adventure.
Making it to a 64th Wisconsin deer camp is a win in itself Read More »
The Old Guy, for some time, had not been able to verbalize it because, he thought, if he did, if he said it out loud, it would become real. Reality would be a problem, with duck season and deer season on the horizon, and after that, next year, the turkey season. And in between all that, trout fishing.
But saying it is vastly different than thinking it. To begin with, the Old Guy didn’t have to say anything, did not have to form words. But he could not control his thoughts, even if he was at war with them. Even if the idea was painful.
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The deer camp, close to a century old, sits on the crest of a hill above a small lake in Oneida County surrounded by a forest of giant hardwoods.
Notes from Oneida County deer camp Read More »
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