I too never really got into Nash. Then again, I'm not a waterfowl hunter, just dabble in it once in a while. I know I've told some guys in the past that Archibald Rutledge has a special place in our family. We have many of his books, original printing and dedicated to my Father-in-Law, who AR took under his wing at Mercersburg Academy. Same for a fine arrowhead and hand tool collection AR helped him find in the fields around the Academy back in the day. I read his stories and can envision those hunts just like I am in the midst of the action.

If you like fly fishing stories, you need to read Charlie Meck "Memory Rising". He's a Central PA guy and fished Spruce Creek in the day when it was open to the public.

I guess growing up in the South gives me a bit of an advantage reading Nash because I have been around that dialect all my life, that may be what makes it so special to me. I can certainly see where some would have trouble with it. You have to get in to kind of a rhythm when reading and just let the words flow phonetically rather than letting your brain try to decipher them word by word.

Didn't Charlie Meck start the Meck Hackle line?





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That would be the guy. The Spruce Creek area was home to quite a few big name fly fisherman.

Foxgun, I hear ya. I don't have a problem letting the drawl flow. :-) Doesn't confuse me at all. If it wasn't so hot in Dixie I'd move there in a heartbeat!

I'm about done with my latest book by W.D.M. Bell, Incidents from an Elephant Hunter's Diary and will need to go somewhere else. Perhaps to the NE Kingdom with Spiller or wander the lower forty with Ford. Alaska with Russell Annabel is always a good choice as is Ruark.
I have been gimped up for two weeks now since coming back from Georgia with a bad foot. First it was the gout which took a week to get cleared up but all the pain never went away. X-Rays revealed the distinct possibility of a broken bone in my foot. I see an orthopedic doc on Tuesday. You can do a lot of reading when it's all you have to do:)

I'm presently reading "the Best of Nash Buckingham, edited by George Bird Evans." This copy is signed by John Olin, thanking my friend's dad for helping him get a bird dog

I just finished that one... again (third time.)





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I just received a copy of Flights on the Wind by Ed Gray, art by Brett James Smith. Have just read a couple of the tales but am enjoying it, even though I ain't a waterfowler. Nicely produced by Willow Creek Press and easily worth the $4.95 from Hamilton Books! I also picked up Fishing Stories by Nick Lyons ($5.95) and Nick Sisley's book on shotgun games (hoping it will help me get started with skeet shooting which I've never done :whistle:).

Then this thread helped me realize that I have Stories of the Old Duck Hunters, but not More " " " or Last " " ", so those are on order in the Willow Creek editions to match. Add the copy of the American Single Barrel Trap Gun I picked up and the copy of Falling Leaves on the way from Dave S., and I'm set for a while. Sigh; so much stuff, so little time!

Phil, Falling Leaves is a really good read even though a lot of it is set here in Massachusetts in the old days.





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