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June 20, 2011 Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – 2011 Blade Show: Part I. Individual Exhibitors
Knives are a diverse set of objects, and the 900 exhibitors at the 30th. International Blade Show and Cutlery Exposition at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta certainly brought an assortment. On exhibit were knife collections from the distant and recent past, products from custom knife makers and new knives from from companies like Case, Buck, Puma and many others.
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This hour-long radio show seeks to give the flavor of the event with interviews with Joe Kirtzman and Jim Schlinder of Blade Magazine, the event’s organizers, as well as a baker’s dozen of knife makers and exhibitors. These interviews also trace the general evolution of a knife maker from student to Master Bladesmith as members of the American Bladesmith Association pass their skill tests to rise from one level to the next.
Featured on the show are Jan Giles and her collection of Girl Scout knives, Gene Jameson (wood knife kits), Rich McDonald (frontier knives), David Loukides (hunting and chef knives), Andy Roy (hunting and utility knives), Vince and Grace Evans (historic swords and knives), Shawn McIntyre (hunting and presentation knives), Kevin Casey (feather Damascus hunting and utility knives), Jared West (modern folders and fixed blades), Mardi Meshejian (art knives), David Ruana (pistol-knife, hunting and utility knives), Tim Lawler (fantasy knives), historic blade trader Richard Nable, scrimshaw artist Katherine Plumber and Pete Cohan of the National Knife Museum.
Coverage of the show will continue July 4 with Part II which will include a factory tour of Buck Knives’ new factory in Post Falls, Idaho, conducted by C.J. Buck and interviews with knife companies and suppliers at the Blade Show.
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June 06, 2011 Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Hunt Destination: Grand Isle and Jean Lafitte, Louisiana
Journey to “The Jump” at land’s end in Southern Louisiana with Hovey and a group of journalists as they tour Jefferson and Plaquemines Parishes, sample seafood, visit nature preserves, fish and examine beaches for traces of last year’s oil spill. Each of the journalists applied their own perspectives to a historic area that has undergone five major disasters in as many years and had “The Flood of the Century” racing down the Mississippi River at them.
Natural disasters are not new for these people who live only feet above sea level, and they take them in stride. There has been a nearly complete recovery from the devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. As Tim Kerner, the Mayor of the town of Jean Lafitte said, “The hurricanes and floods we can manage, it is when our own government prevented us from doing what obviously needed to be done that was so bad. In some cases we had the equipment and we had the people, but were prevented from acting for three days because we did not have enough life preservers for our workers.”
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said that he was nearly stopped from attending a vital meeting with President Obama, but ultimately convinced officials to let him present his case that booms were desperately needed to help protect the coastal wetlands from advancing oil. The booms were ultimately employed, but only after some vital beaches and wetlands had been damaged.
Now, a year after the spill, the beaches at Grand Isle are sugar white again, fishing, shrimping and oystering have resumed and sportsmen and their families are once more returning to southern Louisiana to enjoy the beaches, natural environment and local culture, including some fine-tasting meals from what is likely the most highly-inspected seafood in the world.
Charter boat, private boat, shore and pier fishing are all available as are natural and cultural tours. The usual schedule of fishing tournaments has resumed, and fishing guides are putting people on redfish, flounder and speckled trout. Offshore boats are also going out for tuna, tarpin and bill fish. Although hunting season is still months away, everyone is eagerly anticipating next year’s duck season.
New Orleans remains dry, despite the pressure put on the rebuild levies from a 100-year flood event. The area below the city in Jefferson and Plaquemines Parishes remains very dry. Actually, some diversion of the floodwaters into parts of these parishes using structures that already exist would help to restore the wetlands and drive back the oil. Another way to help the wetlands is to construct artificial barriers using sand already being dredged from the river channel.
A strong case can be made that rebuilding the Louisiana coastal wetlands should be delegated to the U.S. Geological Survey. This organization is accustomed to dealing with long-lived, large geological systems and have the trained hydrologist, geomorphologist, geochemists and biologists to make reasonable decisions, evaluate the consequences using geological data from present and past systems and the mindset to deal with a problem that may take centuries to solve.
The Louisiana Delta area is too important to the nation from the energy, ecological, transportation, economic and social perspectives to allow it to continue to degrade. The costs of doing nothing will raise food, transportation, energy and rebuilding costs because each new storm event will have an increasingly severe impact because of the loss of these vital wetlands that protect the Louisiana coast.
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May 30, 2011 Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Backyard Business Conclave at the Road Kill Cafe
Sit in on the Backyard Business Conclave at the Road Kill Cafe as Professore Luigi “Bubba” Pasquale of the University of Padua returns home to Podunkville, U.S.A., and explains to the locals why and how they should start their own businesses in these tough economic times while they dine on fresh road-killed deer drug off I-20 and donated by Brother Smith.
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Professore Pasquale goes into detail on how a person should choose between potential opportunities to start his/her own business, which are more likely to be successful, how to finance it, find partners, advertise it, evaluate its progress, and even ultimately decide who should run the business after the founder dies.
Brother Smith explains the details of recovering a deer, cleaning it and preparing it for family use. In the cooking section sponsored by SIN, Synthetic Industrial Non-Nutritives, Inc., a series of recipes are given for backstrap steaks, butterfly steaks, roasted deer and making sausage from previously cooked deer meat.
The show incorporates a sampling of and ends with the complete version of Steven Fosters’ hit song, “Hard Times.”
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May 23, 2011 Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – A walk through my home town
A historic and cultural tour of a rural Southern town is given during a walk around the Sandersville, Georgia, town square as Hovey Smith traces the town’s evolution from the 1790s to 2011 with comments on the events, people and things that shaped the community, including how to cook Southern fried chicken.
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Huge yellow pines, live oaks and cypress trees greeted those fortunate enough to be among those who received land grants in the 1790s resulting from service or to compensate for the loss of spouses or property during the Revolutionary War. This was first county in the nation to be named for George Washington and was later divided into 13 others.
Oxen, black slaves and much labor by all resulted in nearly all land being put to the plow by the Civil War aided by the arrival of the Central of Georgia and other railroads that enabled cotton to be transported out of the interior of the state and manufactured goods to come in from other parts of the U.S. and Europe.
Sandersville grew from a single store at the intersection of two Indian trails to be the County seat and a thriving community until the winter of 1864-65 when Gen. William T. Sherman’s army arrived at the town, burned the Courthouse, most commercial buildings and many plantations.
Citizens resisted. One did a solo defense of Oconee, while children at the state’s military academies fought because Georgia units were away in Virginia and other states with few men remaining to defend their homes. Only General Joe Wheeler’s cavalry offered dogged resistance to Sherman’s 60,000 men as they proceeded towards Savannah.
Post-war many changes occurred with new immigrants joining the already multi-ethnic population that existed prior to the Civil War. The town continued to grow and prosper through two World Wars, integration and even now sees new immigrants from Asia and Hispanic America.
“This is a nice place to be from. It is a nice place to be now – Sandersville, Georgia, my home town.”
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May 16, 2011 Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Hunt Destination Bryan County, Georgia
Opportunities abound for sportsmen in Bryan County, Georgia, located only 20 miles from Savannah. The featured town of Richmond Hill is between Ft. Steward, which offers some public hunting, and a State WMA. Off shore, Ossabaw Island has quota hunts for deer and wild hogs. Fresh or salt water fishing opportunities are available almost anywhere.
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Following the Civil War which ruined many of the plantations on the Georgia coast, a number of Bryan County properties were bought by Henry Ford who often spent several Winter months in Georgia. He converted some of the former rice paddies into produce farms, started saw mills, public health projects and built a number of structures to provide educational and work prospects for local residents. When Bryan County was incorporated in 1880, the Ford family built the Courthouse, which is still used for governmental functions.
Ft. Steward is located in the central part of the county, and its 300,000 acres are open to public hunting when no training is taking place. The Richmond Hill WMA is located between the town and the coast, and Ossabaw Island WMA is off shore. Deer and wild hogs are the principal big game animals taken at both locations.
All-season boating and fishing opportunities are available either in coastal waters, in ponds or in the Ogeechee River. Because of the nearness of coastal marshes and wild lands, subdivisions often have outdoor aspects to them with many having their own docks.
Military retirees who want to be near a large base, have access to VA facilities and desire the diversity of outdoor opportunities offered by a coastal location find Bryan County a nearly ideal place to locate their retirement homes and start a post-retirement business.
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May 09, 2011 Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – The Lady and The Spear
A popular early show featuring a lady spear hunter, man-woman relationships, sex changes through life and an unexpected consequence from some nude photography is rebroadcasts while Hovey is receiving an award for this show. For an unusual hunting experience, listen for the ad from the Bare Butt Hunt Club of the Solitario.
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May 02, 2011 Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Engines of Change
Even after using a charm from Beau and Lou-Ann’s Small Engine Exorcisms, Hovey’s first bowfishing trip degrades into a “bowfishing anyway I have to do it” experience. Much more successful was his investigation of making wines from Southern grapes and fruits at Courson’s Winery in the historic grape-growing region of Deveroux, Georgia.
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April 25, 2011 Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – A’fixing to get ready to go bowfishing
Bowfishing can put lots of good fish on the table. Hovey interviews Muzzy’s Mark Land to provide a complete view of the sport as both an individual and group activity. Click the following link to look at the equipment, supplier’s contacts and a recipe for carp salad: http://hovey’soutdooradventures.com. To buy Practical Bowfishing click on the book when it appears to the left.
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April 18, 2011 Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Sandersville, Georgia
Hovey’s home town of Sandersville, Georgia, is featured with interviews with Rea Garrett, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Neil Pittman of the Country Buffet who talks hunting and cooking and with visiting Florida hunter Chris Holloway who tells about taking a trophy Washington County turkey. An ad this week is from Lonny’s Trains who puts turkey decoys on tracks.
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April 11, 2011 Hovey’s Outdoor Adventures – Turkey Hunting Stories
To provide turkey-hunting thrills and laughs, listen as Hovey tells how long-time Outdoor Life writer Charles Elliott bagged his first turkey and had his first drink, Thunderball Turkey, Catch and Release Turkey Hunting and Turkey Dance with Feathers, Chimes and Cannon. A new sponsor is Turkey Treads that lets you put down tracks just like a wild turkey.
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