(This is the fourth in a series of growing up in Lewisburg, West Virginia, perhaps the greatest town and in the best time to grow up that a young man could ever ask for.) Downtown Lewisburg was a living portrait out of a Norman Rockwell collection of nostalgia. There was main street and that was about it. Small stores in brick buildings lined Washington Street, the main thoroughfare … [Read more...]
Carolina Wrens
If you want a delightful serenade, go outside one morning right after sunup, and if there is a Carolina Wren anywhere in the area, you’ll get the serenade of a lifetime. These little fellows love to sing. I have two types of wrens in my backyard – the House Wren and the Carolina Wren. I saw my little Carolina Wren at the feeder yesterday afternoon and heard him singing when I went to retrieve … [Read more...]
Good Course Management
Say you are a high handicap golfer. How would you like to knock anywhere from 4 to 10 strokes off your game? Well, who wouldn’t? Bubba Pulley, a PGA Golf Professional who taught at the elegant Keswick Club, says there are two ways to accomplish that goal. “First,” he said. “We can spend three months or more on the practice range correcting your swing. Or we can do it instantly by playing 9 … [Read more...]
A Nice Louisa Gobbler
By Sherman Shifflett Robert Runnett, of Mineral took this nice Louisa County gobbler Thursday morning, April 19. The big bird weighed 20 lbs., 8 oz. and had a 10" beard. Robert is a good hunter. I was hunting with him last fall when he took a black bear with bow. The following morning he tagged a wall-hanger buck. A few weeks ago he nailed a coyote. His dad, Lloyd, ran … [Read more...]
Pickle Barrel Restaurant
CvilleBuzz reader and contributor, Sherman Shifflet, and I are always on the lookout for new and interesting places to eat. Sherman says he may have found another needle in the haystack. “Greg Barlow, my hunting buddy for the past 40 years, and I went to Richmond, today, and a friend recommended the Pickle Barrel Restaurant for breakfast,” Sherman noted. “He also said the place was good for … [Read more...]
CrossKeys Attractions
Recently, my wife Nancy and I have been making semi-regular trips across the mountain to visit CrossKeys Vineyards, near Weyers Cave in the Shenandoah Valley. The drive is pleasant, the scenery is beautiful, the wines are good as are the entertainment and food. Coming up this weekend is an event called “Flights at the Round Table”. Beer, wine and food. It sounds like a road trip may be in … [Read more...]
Bakin’ Bacon
If you could only eat one food the rest of your life, what would it be? Steak? Eggs? Homemade bread? Chocolate pie? For me, I’d have to consider bacon. You can’t go wrong with bacon, but it sure is a pain in the wok to cook. It takes forever to fry, it makes a huge mess with grease splattering everywhere and then, as it is finishing, smugglers smell the alluring aroma and come in and pilfer … [Read more...]
The Fish Are Here
It’s time to roll. The fish are biting! Speckled trout are around, but good luck finding someone to share the location of his or her hot spot. Try the shallows around Rudee and Lynnhaven Inlets. Tautog fishing is excellent around the rock islands of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, at the Kiptopeke Concrete Ships and on near shore wrecks. Dr. Ken Neill and crew fished a couple of inshore … [Read more...]
Waiting for the Azaleas to Bloom
By Capt. Steve Chaconas Like clockwork, when my 60-year-old red azaleas bloom, it’s time for the bass spawn.The length of day and warm weather makes these events concurrent...almost. The water in the Potomac is holding around 60 and rising. Nice weather week ahead, 70s by the weekend. One issue: muddy water. Surprise torrential downpours in our area and especially in the West … [Read more...]
Lewisburg: O’er Those Beautiful Hills
(This is the third in a series of growing up in Lewisburg, West Virginia, perhaps the greatest town and in the best time to grow up that a young man could ever ask for.) Describing Beckley, WV as hilly would be like saying that Warren Buffet has a little money. Beckley was not “hilly”. It was a town perched among mountains. Streets went vertically, not horizontally. There was one road … [Read more...]
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