Author: Steve Bodio

Good Book Quotes

From Joe Queenan’s One For The Books: “I love to pull my books down off the shelf and read striking passages to baffled dimwits who have turned up at my house.” And: “”Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.”

New Darnes!

Jacques Bollelli has revived the nearly dead Darne company, and is planning to make a few very high grade guns. Although these are beyond my reach I am delighted to see the old design going into its third century with renewed vision and originality. Jacques writes:”As you know we are starting to reorganize the team …

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Quote

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” (Chesterton, via Arthur Kover and John “Johnny UK” Hill).

Meanwhile, at sea…

Brother- in- law George Graham has been getting more and more involved in observing, counting, and studying marine birds and fish off the coast of Massachusetts, so far as a volunteer. He sent this report and these excellent photos, as migration stretces its  lines down the coasts. My only caveat is that George will have …

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Digging

Andy was right about the photo of Libby a bit below, but didn’t guess the place. The photo was taken in 1966, when she was digging on the important early American Hell Gap archaeological site in southeastern Wyoming, east of Guernsey, under the leadership of the legendary Cynthia Irwin- Williams. Libby got her degree, and …

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