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Pack rat’s journal: I have notes
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Pack rat’s journal: I have notes
by Gayne C. Young 
May 21, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Writers are notorious pack rats. Especially in the times before the cloud server. Before I got cheap online storage, I had boxes and boxes of clippings, notes and documents I had collected in the hopes of someday using. I came across some of these while trying to clean out my office...
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Kerrville Genealogical Society to host WikiTree program
May 14, 2025
The Kerrville Genealogical Society invites the public to its May 2025 program, featuring genealogist and historian T. Scott Atkinson, as he presents “Understanding WikiTree,” a comprehensive review of the online genealogy platform WikiTree, its functions, and why it should be your genealogy program ...
I always bet on the gorilla
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
I always bet on the gorilla
by Gayne C. Young 
May 14, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Let me start by saying I really don’t care who would win in a battle royale between a silverback gorilla and a hundred men. Sure, I’d watch it or attend a live event if I had tickets, but to be honest, I think debating the question as people have been doing online is kind of stupid....
Grill shopping and eyeing a Traeger
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Grill shopping and eyeing a Traeger
by Gayne C. Young 
May 7, 2025
Outdoors On Edge I’ve never made money off setting anything on fire. Joe Traeger has. A lot of it. Our story begins in Mt. Angel, Oregon back in the e...
Larry Hagman visited the ’Burg
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Larry Hagman visited the ’Burg
by Gayne C. Young 
April 30, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Before he was Major Nelson on “I Dream of Jeannie” or J.R. Ewing on “Dallas,” Larry Hagman was the son of divorced parents who was ju...
Thrice named adventurer braved many horrors on his travels
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Thrice named adventurer braved many horrors on his travels
by Gayne C. Young 
April 23, 2025
Outdoors On Edge He hunted to fill his family’s natural history museum, had five different species of animals named after him and discovered the sourc...
Fermenting on mead/motors
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Fermenting on mead/motors
by Gayne C. Young 
April 16, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Ineed another boat motor like I need a hole in my head. And yet I’m looking for one. I suppose I’m truly a glutton for punishment. Th...
In conversation with Joe Bob Briggs, Part 4
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
In conversation with Joe Bob Briggs, Part 4
by Gayne C. Young 
April 9, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Here’s the final portion of my interview with writer and host of the The Last Drivein with Joe Bob Briggs John Bloom - aka Joe Bob Br...
In conversation with Joe Bob Briggs, Part 3
News, Outdoors
In conversation with Joe Bob Briggs, Part 3
OUTDOORS ON EDGE By Gayne C. Young 
April 2, 2025
Here’s Part 3 of my interview with writer and host of the “The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs,” John Bloom, a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs. You wrote “Evide...
A conversation with Joe Bob Briggs, Part 2
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
A conversation with Joe Bob Briggs, Part 2
by Gayne C. Young 
March 26, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Here’s Part 2 of my interview with writer John Bloom — a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs — and host of the “The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs...
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