A few weeks ago my wife and I had the privilege of seeing our grandson graduate from Beginners Fur-Fish and Game Camp at Millstone 4-H Camp. He, along with a young friend of mine, were sponsored by the Sandhills Rod and Gun Club to attend one week of Beginners camp and in my young friend’s case, Advanced Camp. Camp Millstone 4H Camp is a hidden treasure...
Read MoreMan, my back hurts; I’ve been picking cucumbers and squash every morning for three weeks. It kinda hurts down low like it did when I was a young teenager working in tobacco every day. Back then when I would complain about my back hurting old folks would say, “boy, you’re too young to have a back.” For those of you folks who still remember working in the...
Read MoreThe Sandhills Rod and Gun Club was organized on Nov. 14th, 1955, with twenty-five charter members. It is probably the second oldest hunting and fishing club in Richmond Co. that’s still going strong. Their first president was John Lentz, vice president was Edwin Key, secretary was James S. Foreman and treasurer was Willis Bryant. The goal of the new club...
Read MoreWhen I was coming up in the fifties and early sixties, won’t no such thing in rural parts of our county as convenience stores. No-sir-re, they were all mostly Mom and Pop grocery stores. If’en you didn’t get what you needed in town on Saturdays, you did without, borrowed from a neighbor or visited a local country store. In the first half of the twentieth...
Read MoreIn the late 1990’s, Rockingham Down Town Corporation decided a local farmers market was needed in Rockingham. This market would be a central location for local farmers to sell their homegrown produce, honey, berries and other such products. This type of venue was needed to help draw more folks downtown as a lot of the big box stores had left downtown and...
Read MoreAs surely as the Dogwood trees bloom annually in the spring; so also do the fresh water fish start to bed and migrate up the streams. Crappie and Bream are bedding close to shore while Bluefin Suckers and White Bass are making their annual runs up small rivers and creeks to lay their eggs. I enjoy fishing for most anything that bites, but catching my limit...
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