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Duck Season Somewhere

Sep 29, 2022

Back in the day, describes Billy Johnson, Leland, Mississippi swelled to 4x its present population on Saturday nights. Live music and food carts on every corner down by the tracks. That was way back when a national magazine described this little Mississippi delta hamlet as "The Hell Hole of America." Things like blind...


Sep 28, 2022

Albertine Kimble has lived in Carlisle, Louisiana (population 1) for her entire life.  From her stilted home a lofty 23 feet above the ground (for good reason), she remembers growing up nearby, what duck hunting was like back in her grandfather's day, hunting "French ducks" with her dad and brothers, earning the...


Sep 26, 2022

Now 80 years old, Sid "Boweevil" Laws has only been away from his Lake Washington home in the Mississippi Delta home for 8 years of his life. The river is integral to Boweevil's life and lifestyle. "Nowadays, it's about just being there," he says emotionally about duck hunting after first describing memorable times on...


Sep 22, 2022

There's more to South Africa than ducks, geese and guineafowl. Way more. Way bigger. Following an action-packed wingshooting spree in South Africa, Ramsey joins long-time friends and associates to scratch off a few non-feathered bucket-list biggies that have stalked his dreams during the years he first met the...


Sep 19, 2022

From the Levee Board headquarters in Washington County, Mississippi, legendary storyteller and historian Hank Burdine tells about lifestyles and livings made "between the levees" of the nearby Mississippi River. Burdine's story winds like the mighty river itself through the extremely lucrative moonshine and...