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Ben Yarian
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Posted: Sat Apr 18th, 2009 12:31 pm |
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Richard. Just curios, do you know what they used to cover the roof of the cabin with?
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Dave Noreen
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Posted: Sat Apr 18th, 2009 01:46 pm |
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Here are a couple labeled Sioux Lake, October 1931. Top photo is my Father, his cousin Edna Huff and her husband Willis Huff. Lower photo is my Mother and Father.
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Sat Apr 18th, 2009 03:36 pm |
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| No clue Ben, but from the basic look of the cabin I'd guess the standard sphagnum moss and dirt. I can see a few other things about the cabin worth commenting on. It looks to be made of deciduous trees, cottonwood maybe. They used the style of putting all the butts towards the front to generate a slope to the roof so that water would run off to the back and not soak through the roof. It's a pole roof and maybe they had a layer of something in there under the sod to seal it, but I doubt it. They did carry a real window in tho, so maybe. The logs are pretty well fit from what I can see. Many get made with 2" gaps that are sealed with moss that allows squirrels in to raid whatever is left behind; this place looks pretty tight in the pics. They made a serious mistake in leaving the ends of the logs projecting beyond the roof overhangs as they will get wet and rot off very quickly compared to the rest of the logs. Strangely enough, folks still do that up here. I guess they think it looks cool or something, but it's a real no no if you want the cabin to last. Leaving large overhangs protects the logs and gives you a place to store and hang stuff outside-- tools, traps, wire, wash basins, etc. Last edited on Sat Apr 18th, 2009 03:46 pm by Richard Flanders
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 02:02 am |
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| Dave, I really enjoyed your bio and your old pictures in the Double Gun Reader too.
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Dave Noreen
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 01:39 pm |
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| Thanks Dean. Gotta say I never had a chance, I was really born to it! As my Mother said, "we never go on vacations we go on endurance contests!" See my "Golden Wedding Pheasants" blurb in The Double Gun Journal, Volume Eleven, Issue 3, pages 186 and 187.
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Timothy Sheldon
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 08:20 pm |
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I really admire you guys that had this tradition of yearly hunts at old hunting lodges or even at old "Millers Farm" where Bill used to hunt up by me. My dad worked at his pharmacy all the time. Trying to establish a new business in a small town of docs dispensing their own medicine, not an easy thing to do. He finally won them over, but that didn't leave lots of time for a history steeped in hunting tradition. He did however hand me over a 16 gauge S x S of unknown maker (to me today), which taught me the value and to love the side by side. At the time all my friends had pumps or auto's so I thought I was somehow getting ripped off but the S x S was in my veins. I shot my first pat with my dad and brother on a weekend at the cottage. I was supprised that I hit the bird at all, but I got it and hunting got me. It has been love ever since.
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 08:37 pm |
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Tim,
I found out that Millers Farm was on Applegate. We use to stay at Hotel 46 which I beleave is now gone.
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Jack Cronkhite
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Posted: Wed Apr 22nd, 2009 01:57 pm |
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Good, bad or indifferent, this is the man who instilled in me a love of the outdoors and a passion for hunting. Don't have many hunting pictures from those days. Holding the VH is my father. Game that day was sage grouse. Mid 1960's (there was a day I could have given a real date but it seems as I have gone from good eyes to glasses then to bi and now tri-focals the memory fades)
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Jack
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Jim Pasman
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Posted: Wed Apr 22nd, 2009 04:42 pm |
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| My apology for chiming in so late on this string, but when I saw the picture and name "Doc Hall", I was transported to 1964 in what my wife calls "the way back machine." No pictures to post, but it was spring that year when my Dad took all three boys for a week down the Little Manistee River, north of Muskegon near Mesick, to try some trout fishing - with emphais on try. We floated around a bend, stopped and watched a solitary man in a canoe, wearing a fedora, flicking a fly rod and landing more trout in ten minutes than we'd landed all day on worms. He called us over for a lesson on fly fishing and instructions on cleaning trout with two quick cuts and a gentle pull. He introduced himself as "Doc Hall" as we floated apart. Not in Michigan anymore but flyfishing for over forty years because of two men, one named Doc Hall .
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Mon Apr 27th, 2009 02:16 pm |
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Jim,
Wow really neet way to meet Jim Hall II. Why dont you drop Doc Hall a email, he would love to here from you. dochall3@earthlink.net
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Jim Pasman
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Posted: Mon Apr 27th, 2009 03:56 pm |
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Thanks for the email address, Bill. I will send him a note.
Jim
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Todd Allen
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Posted: Mon May 4th, 2009 01:16 am |
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My Grandmother & Grandfather center left & right:
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Jim Pasman
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Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 08:41 pm |
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Bill,
Just thought I'd close the loop on your introducing me to Doc Hall III. We ended up on the telephone and as it turns out that was his father who gave us the trout fishing lesson. My Dad who's 85 now was (in his own words) "tickled pink" when I told him we'd spoken by phone and was as amazed as I was that we made that connection, thanks to you. Much appreciated!
Also got a copy of his book and a Corey Ford article or two - with a book report assignment. Looking forward to talking with Doc again.
Owe you a dinner if you ever visit Boston!
Jim
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 09:30 pm |
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Jim,
It was my pleasure, Doc Hall is a really interesting Man with many stories to tell. I just hope he writes that book about Corey Ford. If I ever make it to Boston I will make it a point to look you up. Michigan is not the best place to find Lobster, so you never know when I will have to take that road trip. If you ever find yourself back in northern Michigan drop me a line.
Bill
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Thu May 14th, 2009 04:04 am |
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Let's make it a threesome. I just received my Limited Edition from Doc Hall. Swapped several e-mails and several pictures with him as well as a couple of lengthy phone calls. He has another book, DHJ II which he is looking for a publisher for. The guy is tireless - I'm amazed.
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Jim Pasman
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Posted: Thu May 14th, 2009 05:09 pm |
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Bill and Dean,
Three for lobster in Boston! Travel prices will never be better, Bill....and I'll take you up on the offer to look you up next time I'm near. Still have two brothers in MI; Grand Rapids and Paw Paw - only a six or severn hour road trip.
Lobster here may be the only time I could meet Dean because, if you're from Boston, no one from the North Shore (Andover) can go to the South Shore (Braintree) and vice versa. It's a local thing but more real than we admit.
Jim
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Thu May 14th, 2009 06:24 pm |
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I don't know what it is really - a geographic thing maybe?
"it's such a long ride . . ." - Yeah, about thirty-five miles to Braintree.
Strange as it sounds, when I bought the house here in Andover in '76 old friends rarely came to visit - after all, we were "way out in the country" - Actually about eighteen miles from our previous home - but when friends did come to visit they would pack for a couple of days at first 
maybe it's a mental thing . . .
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Jim Pasman
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Posted: Mon May 18th, 2009 12:49 pm |
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Dean,
Been traveling.....both areas have such great places to get outdoors like Cape Ann and Plum Island to the north and the Cape and Islands south that neither geographic group needs to go in the opposite direction. New Hampshire has been our family's (truth be told my) choice to get away. In all honesty, the Cape is way too crowded for me but I do like to fish the beaches for stripers.
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Jim
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Tue May 19th, 2009 02:35 am |
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Jim Pasman wrote: In all honesty, the Cape is way too crowded for me but I do like to fish the beaches for stripers.
Ditto on the "crowded" Cape. Have you tried Nantucket or Martha's Vinyard?? They are fabulous for stripers and blues.
Before I sold my 18 ft. Hydra-Sports CC with 115 hp Merc. the waters between the Boston Harbor islands all the way around Cape Ann, Newburyport, Joppa Flats and up to and around Hampton Harbor were my "stompin' grounds". I would launch with the best tide for the season, no matter the time of day or night. I did it for thirteen years and don't really know why I sold the boat but I miss it terribly. Did it all with fly rods. I was a charter member of the New England Saltwater Fly-Rodders and held the position of treasurer and BOD member for about nine or ten years. It is a great organization and the very best thing about belonging to that club (aside from the great friendships and outings) was the local knowledge shared by members from all over coastal New England.
So, if you have a boat you can trailer, I can show you some great striper fishing.
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Jim Pasman
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Posted: Tue May 19th, 2009 03:55 pm |
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| Wow, that's a distinguished salt water career! Just have my trout fishing canoe but rent time in Boston Harbor with Capt. Mike Conley of Breakwater Charters - all flyfishing for me too. My time in the salt has been limited because of all my excuses like work, family and a place in Lisbon, NH. Capt. Mike does the tournament route on the Vineyard in the fall but I've never joined him...yet.
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