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Small Shops, Big Reads: North Carolina’s Independent Bookstores
The internet has made the process of shopping for books easier than ever before. From the comfort of our homes, we can buy a physical book and have it delivered in as little as two days. Still, if that is not soon enough, we can push a button and get an instant e-book, and while I enjoy both these options...
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Ruby & Woodcocks
Growing up in Eastern North Carolina, it is only natural that I developed a strong connection to the outdoors. Endless adventures awaited me just outside my doorstep throughout my childhood. Growing up in Eastern North Carolina, it is only natural that I developed a strong connection to the outdoors. Endless adventures awaited me just outside my doorstep throughout my childhood. The Croatan National Forest, Bogue Sound, barrier islands and countless other opportunities were always within walking distance. As a young man with a deep yearning to be outdoors, I was fortunate to be immersed in all that North Carolina had to offer.
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Ghostly Tales Of Big Marsh Swamp Pt.1
The author had heard the tales of the ghostly happenings in Big Marsh Swamp, but the lure of good duck hunting was stronger than any Ghost Story
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My Fishing Evolution: Bigger Isn’t Always Better
My hometown is a place that I affectionately refer to as a drinking town with a fishing problem: Sebastian,Florida. The gateway to the tropics. I grew up on the Sebastian Rive...gators,mullet, manatees, and tarpon in my backyard. I took it for granted then,but I have an entirely new appreciation for it now.
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One Last Bluebill
The boy was older now, so much older than his daddy who died at the age of twenty-five, a year after enlisting in the army to fight in “The Great War”. His father was killed by a German machine gunner in a land that he saw only when it was being blown apart by war. The son of the soldier, now seventy-five, was reflecting on his life and upon the man, he never truly knew. His daddy had been a market gunner for wildfowl in coastal North Carolina, but times and attitudes towards game were changing, and to make money for the family, he enlisted and went off to war.…
