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Unread 11-01-2009, 08:30 PM   #61
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Chris thanks..The stones were pretty much all from one family 1820,s to 1870,s mostly. Dean knows the family story better than I.

Larry... We came in from hunting and I turned my back for a minute and that Dean guy had put our guns in that rack again....Well you can just imagine the vocabulary that was uttered after that move....
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Chris thanks..The stones were pretty much all from one family 1820,s to 1870,s mostly. Dean knows the family story better than I.


Some of the 'born' dates go well back into the 1700's. The real heartbreaker is the headstones of so many children. It was an extremely hard life back in those hills on a hardscrabble farm - no doctor except by horseback at least a half day's ride from the farm into town to fetch the doctor back again . . . if he was even in town at the time. No medicines, no vaccines - nothing but a mother's love and a family's prayers . . . headstones that make your eyes well up . . . "AE 13 mos.", "AE 14 yrs.", "AE 2 yrs. 7 mos." "Mary Shattuck Second wife of Josiah Shattuck, AE 22 yrs.", "Polly Shattuck, third wife of Josiah Shattuck, AE 26 yrs.", "Josiah Shattuck, AE 79 yrs."
This is the Shattuck Family Cemetery. It was an enormous (for the day) family farm but was long since abandoned and the forest just took over. Years ago I knew where the fieldstone cellar-hole was and the ancient sugar maple "roof tree" was still standing then but the whole area was logged off at least twenty years ago and the skidder's huge cleated and chained tires ground all evidence of a farm and cellar holes into oblivion.


Larry... We came in from hunting and I turned my back for a minute and that Dean guy had put our guns in that rack again....Well you can just imagine the vocabulary that was uttered after that move....
That rack is stronger than it ever was. I call it the "Barn Door Rack". You know, the one they closed after the horse got out?

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A Canadian quack-quack camp report is over due

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Ben,Thank you for your comments.I hope you and your son can steal away for a few hours afield when he returns home for Thanksgiving.
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Roger,

See my good news thread over in the hunting section.

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The last day of my pa'tridge hunting forays for the season ended as memorably, yet not with the excited anticipation, as the first day. It was among the best upland seasons I can ever remember - not for the number of birds bagged and not so much for the numbers flushed for certainly the numbers are down. It was, instead for the memories made; the times we had - the countryside we tramped and admired, the covers we hunted, the shots we took at birds as well as the shots we took at each other - all in good fun... all in good cheer. The indoctrination of a fine young man, Danny Suponski, into a man's world playing a man's game with all the seriousness, determination, self sacrifice and self-abuse of knowing the job was done and done well - the job of grouse hunting and all that goes with it. Welcome to it Danny, Welcome!
Remember, a pa'tridge huntin' gentleman can rise a little later . . . but not THAT late

Here's to next year

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Last picture taken on Sunday. I tried a dozen times last night to include this picture in the above past but just couldn't make it happen.
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What kind of chickens are those?

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Them wood chickens are sure gettin' scarce down this way.
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The boys I know over in Canada that go to moose camp every year call them Road Chickens. You get away from civilization a bit and apparently they actually still exist in some numbers. They all carry a shotgun on their 4 wheelers and shoot them off the sides of the trails for camp meat.

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P.S. to Fred: Where did you get that family photo of mine? I want it back!
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