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Russell Worth Parker

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“I’m probably best at fishing, but I always say if turkeys gobbled all year, I’d be useless” —David Joy, who wrote about flounder gigging in Savannah (p. 116)

After retiring from the Marine Corps this past summer, Russell Worth Parker took his ten-year-old daughter, Annabelle, on an RV journey from their home in Wilmington, North Carolina, across the country, stopping and , profiled fellow outdoorsman Jonathan Wilkins. “I heard Jonathan on a podcast talking about the intersection of arts and hunting and was so struck by him,” Parker says. His piece on Wilkins’s Arkansas hunting lodge, Black Duck Revival, begins on page 108.

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