Outdoors

By: Glynn Harris Turkey hunting in Louisiana is going full tilt with another week to go until season ends May 3. From posts I’m seeing on the Internet and from calls I’ve gotten, it seems to have been a pretty good season so far with quite a few longbeard gobblers biting the dust since season opened for the general public …

By: Glynn Harris There is one nice advantage to being an outdoors writer and getting to attend annual conferences of writing organizations. One such group that is no longer in existence is the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association that when active, held annual conferences somewhere in the southeastern United States.  I got to meet and rub shoulders with other writers whose …

By: Glynn Harris (Turkey season is open and although I can no longer hunt, allow me to dip into the archives and dshare a column I wrote several years ago to express my love for the sport and all that accompanies it.)  We’re sitting here on the cusp of one of my favorite times of year. Its spring; dogwoods and …

By; Glynn Harris It almost didn’t happen. A real close call if ever there was one.  It was mid-April in 1992. My plans had been carefully laid out and the level of excitement was starting to build as I contemplated what was about to take place.  The weather was warm, purple martins were twittering overhead and the woods had already …

By: Glynn Harris This is the time of year when guys and gals of my ilk crawl out of warm beds early mornings to head for the woods. Granted, no hunting season is open now and we’re not out there to circumvent the law; we’re going out to “listen”, as you’ll overhear us talking about what we did on early …

by Glynn Harris How long ago was it? Thirty years, maybe longer? I was doing some work writing material for timber company giant, Willamette Industries, when our paths first crossed.  It was back then that a couple of ambitious young guys from the Ruston area, John Brown and Rex Moncrief, embarked on a television adventure. Neither knew much about what …

By: Glynn Harris When I was a kid growing up in the country, this was the time of year when our family kept our eyes on the skies listening and watching for the arrival of our annual visitors, that being purple martins.  We always had a bird box set up on a pole in the yard and without fail, there …

By: Glynn Harris As an outdoor writer, I have been blessed to get to interview some famous folks and others, not so famous who have impressed me the most. Twenty-plus years ago, I had the privilege of interviewing a bass angler who was born deaf and without the ability to speak.  I was tournament director for an annual event held …

By: Glynn Harris There is a remarkable act of naturestarting to take place any day now. Afew years ago, I was turkey huntingwhen I saw something that fascinatedme. As I sat overlooking a foodplot, a deer stepped out 40 yardsor so away followed by a secondand then a third deer. They lingeredjust long enough for me toget a good look …

During the course of a lifetime, there are some people who make a mark on your life that time can’t erase. One such person who touched my life in a special way was the late Dr. Nelda Hughes Spinks who passed away in 2023.  Dr. Spinks was a storied educator, teaching not only in high schools but at LA Tech …