Garden & Gun

The SOUTHERN DRIFT BOAT

drift boats differ from—and emulate—their famous Western cousins. Maness emerged from a concrete-block shop below an old Appalachian log house he and his wife, Shannon, were repurposing. He wore a two-week-old beard and a striped beanie over a ball cap—winter garb

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