Summer reading - Page 2

Bill Murphy · 08-07-2023, 11:15 AM

I read "The Old Man and the Boy" in Field and Stream all through the mid to late fifties and maybe into the sixties. My dad must have been renewing my subscriptions religiously because I still have a shelf full of F&S, never having discarded a single issue. Of course, all of them included Corey Ford's "The Lower Forty". Dad knew Ruark through cocktail parties in D.C. while Ruark was employed by the Washington Daily News. I would kill to add his News columns to my meager Ruark collection. I guess they are lost for eternity.

Garth Gustafson · 08-07-2023, 11:55 AM

Ruark’s obit in New York Times

mobirdhunter · 08-07-2023, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

I read "The Old Man and the Boy" in Field and Stream all through the mid to late fifties and maybe into the sixties. My dad must have been renewing my subscriptions religiously because I still have a shelf full of F&S, never having discarded a single issue. Of course, all of them included Corey Ford's "The Lower Forty". Dad knew Ruark through cocktail parties in D.C. while Ruark was employed by the Washington Daily News. I would kill to ad his News columns to my meager Ruark collection. I guess they are lost for eternity.

If the WDN is included on Newspapers.com, you may find them there. I let my subscription lapse or I would check.

Woodcock survey · 08-07-2023, 12:27 PM

Mr. Murphy i believe his columns are kept at the university of North Carolina. I did a search a few years ago but did not find out if they are available online. If online you may be able to print them.

Mills · 08-08-2023, 11:35 AM

If they are at UNC, UNC is putting more and more stuff online all the time.

Ruark is one of my favorites even though I am a recent convert

Stan Hillis · 08-09-2023, 11:39 PM

I have the combination book, and have enjoyed it for over 20 years. A favorite.

mobirdhunter · 08-10-2023, 12:03 PM

I saw this today: https://www.grayssportingjournal.com...-appreciation/

James Brown · 08-11-2023, 10:24 PM

I have read both books many times. By far the best reading on the subject I have done. I am a bit partial, was raised in the late 40s and 50s in the country. Except for the salt water stuff, I lived a lot of what Ruark wrote about in the first book. The picture is my paternal grandfather with Jake and Queenie (my Frank and Sandy). I still have the hat. Jbrown

charlie cleveland · 08-12-2023, 11:10 AM

great hat I too have many memories from hats worn by friends and families....charlie