CALL OF THE WILD
e could write a whole piece just about Bo Brown’s music career: How, as a young man, Brown strummed guitar in a band at Silver Dollar City, and then played for several years with the Undergrass Boys, a progressive bluegrass band that opened for the likes of Emmylou Harris. Or how, more recently, he performed on the. But these days, Brown is focused more on sharing a lifetime of wisdom gleaned from the Ozark woods. A lifelong hiker, Brown moved into a log cabin on 15 forested acres in the mid-’80s. He got a gig doing field observations for biologists at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (he observed the effect of cicada emergence on birds). He still does such contract work, but a big chunk of his time goes to showing people how to forage and make primitive tools through First Earth Wilderness School. His book was published by Falcon Guides in 2020, and he’s now at work on a second title, .
