Dead Eye Dick
Author’s Note: This story appeared in the September 25, 2021 online edition of the Adirondack Almanack in a slightly modified version under the title “Outlaw Duck Hunters”. “Regular Ducks” ********** My first brush with the law came in ’74. I was 10. Fresh out of 5th Grade, I still...
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Roast Grinch
“A year Round Treat” ********** “Outlaw Santa & His Posse” “Just Bagged Some Grinches” So you’ve been doing some hunting – managed to bag a few Grinches! Congratulations! So….Now What?? Well, I wanted to take a moment and offer some suggestions and an easy original Grinch recipe...
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Bagging Grinches
I love to hunt, always have, but cancer is a Grinch, trying to steal everything, even an Outlaw’s roast beast. When I was 16, I bagged my first buck, an 8 point, up on a Phelps Mountain ridge. My next buck didn’t come for a number of years. I...
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Olympic Outlaws
How Two SLHS Outlaws Were Thwarted in Pursuit of the Gold Author’s Note: ( “Olympic Outlaws” appeared in The Adirondack Almanack’s March 18, 2021 online edition) ********** I first met Chris in the spring of 1978. We were both freshman milers on the Saranac Lake track team. I...
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