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Five Years of Feathers & Whiskey
As we near the end of April, I want to thank everyone for supporting F & W over the past five years. In 2018, while I was discussing food, hunting, fishing, bourbon, and literature with co-founder and good friend Robbie Perdue, he said the phrase ” Feathers & Whiskey”. I was struck by the combination of those…
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Fly Fishing in the Pyrenees
Brian Smith, a Bohemian adventurer, went fly fishing in the Pyrenees mountain range in Spain, inspired by Hemingway's classic novel "The Sun Also Rises."
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A Tar Heel Aboard Titanic
Twenty years ago, then North Carolina Governor Mike Easley declared November 24, 2003, Oscar Scott Woody Day. The day was set aside to honor someone that few people in North Carolina had heard of. Someone whose life probably would not have made it into the pages of history had it not been for the fateful night of…
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Questionable Medical Advice
There are certain times in your life when you look back and recognize the exact origin of your current misery; the poorly made decisions that eventually flourished. The chickens came home to roost… or in my case: turkeys. We were camping along one of the many tributaries of the Columbia River, hoping for salmon but settling…
