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I believe this may have been mentioned in an earlier thread, but the late SC author Pat Conroy met Rutledge through the efforts of a high school English teacher at Hampton Plantation when Conroy was 15. Gil
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My favorite story of his is "Fallen Lady"
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My favorite story of his is "Fallen Lady" It was a Parker, not a Lefever, and it wasn't Rutledge it was Babcock. I agree it was one of my favorite stories anyhow...Geo
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I read Havilah Babcock's story Fallen Lady in a Field & Stream mag many years ago.
On that occasion, it "Was" a Lefever. He may well have written it more than once.
Miller/TN
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anybody remember "pocono shot" by foote?
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Just to whet your appetite for reading the article in the latest Sporting Classics rag, one of the "Kings of Curlew Island" was a huge diamondback rattler.
I really did not know, until I saw a show this summer on TV, that the biggest of the big Eastern Diamondbacks inhabit the coastal islands of the Southeast. I watched as a fellow tracked a swimming rattler to a beach on a little island, and caught it. It was an eight foot snake................just huge.
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Usually big size comes from lots of food. Swamp rabbits are the biggest rabbit I've ever seen. The southeast produces lots of mice, rats, and other sorts of small food to grow BIG snakes.
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NatGeo on TV years ago declared Little St. Simons Island near Brunswick, GA., the Eastern Diamondback Capital of the world. Telemetry studies were done at one time down there. Gil
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I am very near the borderline where diamondbacks do not exist. It has always been said that Brier Creek is the line, below which there are diamondbacks, and above which there are not. That is fairly accurate. I've never seen a diamondback here, though I'm only about 5 miles north of Brier Creek. I've seen many south of it, tho'. Strange thing is, I once saw a big diamondback in Allendale County, SC, which is definitely north of Brier Creek. We were deer hunting on horseback on the last day of December when I rode up on him, sunning himself. He went down in a stump hole when he saw me. There was a copperhead lying in the sun right beside him. My buddy went back that afternoon and dug him out, caught him, and carried him to the Columbia, SC Zoo's herpetarium.
I guess they can't read, to know about where they aren't supposed to be.
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