Sept/Oct issue

I've finally been editing articles for the Sept/Oct issue. Rex Allen Norman's cooking over the campfire again, and it really made me hungry reading it! As always he has some beautiful drawings to illustrate his work. It comes at a good time of the year and will surely inspire some experiments over the cook fire at upcoming hunting camps. He covers some old favorites and has an interesting bit on boudins.

Also in the Sept/Oct issue will be a piece on the Watauga settlements by Jim Crutchfield. Jim has a way of finding interesting and little-known, or at least often-overlooked, episodes in history that I particularly enjoy. Often, I think, our view of history gets somewhat stale or static, and revisiting these lesser-known episodes helps reawaken our awareness of the atmosphere of the times. It helps us "put ourselves" in the time period and imagine better what it would have been like to live then. I always appreciate Jim's pieces for that.

-Linda Scurlock