A lot of folks in the North Country still ask about my brother Allen, who was featured prominently in a book I wrote a few years ago about rural politics.<\/p>\n
Allen is a school teacher in rural Missouri but these days his biggest passions are raising his two boys and getting outdoors.<\/p>\n
In an age when most kids are Nintendo-bound, his 16-year-old son David is one of the most avid and talented sportsmen I’ve ever met.<\/p>\n
Allen and David keep a marvelous blog, which you can check out her<\/a>e<\/a>. <\/p>\n Last summer, they managed to hit about half the fishing holes in the Adirondacks in a two-week dash.<\/p>\n But usually they take things slow and easy, with a big emphasis on appreciating each bend of the river.<\/p>\n Here’s a sample of David’s voice – remember, this is a sixteen-year-old:<\/p>\n The fish takes a hard run to the other side of the pool. Then it takes the air, and shakes its head with the fury that only a wild trout can show.<\/p>\n After a few minutes, I tire the fish, and bring him to the net. The pink stripe coursing down it side is pecked with small black dots. This is truly a perfect fish.<\/p>\n I rejoice for a moment at my catch, and slowly and gently slip him back in the water. It was truly a thing of beauty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I read their blog, in part, because I love the outdoors and I love good, clean passionate writing.<\/p>\n But more than that I love the idea of fathers and sons embracing the kind of deep friendship that so many dads whiff past these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A lot of folks in the North Country still ask about my brother Allen, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}