Opening morning of the 2022 spring turkey season found myself sitting on a small, three-legged stool in my pop-up turkey blind. A tom turkey greeted the gray light of dawn with a lusty gobble. My heart beat faster. He was close! I was relieved the bird hadn’t been...
While eating lunch one day at work, my friend Gary asked, “You interested in buying a 28 gauge shotgun? It was my dad’s and I want to sell it.” I didn’t have to think very long about it. I’d never owned a 28 gauge. Never even shot one. “How much you want for it?” I...
My dad always told me, “Never doubt your compass…” During an interview, author John Filson once asked Daniel Boone if he’d ever been lost. Boone is quoted as saying, “I have never been lost, but will admit to being confused for several weeks.” I have done...
His students have built over 800 recurve bows… by Darryl Quidort August 01, 2018 You may have heard of Everett R. Smith, the Industrial Arts teacher at Ovid Elsie High School. He has been featured in many magazine and newspaper articles and has appeared...
A Trip Across the Wilds of the Lower Peninsula in the 1850s by Darryl Quidort March 01, 2018 Much of Michigan was an unmapped wilderness in the 1850s when George Washington Sears left Saginaw Bay for a solitary trek across the Lower Peninsula. He intended to...
