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A zoo’s bold new take: Pets as food
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
A zoo’s bold new take: Pets as food
by Gayne C. Young 
August 27, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Would you feed your cat to a lion? Toss your dog before a leopard? Or how about chuck your guinea pigs into a tiger pit only to watch as they’re tossed around like some macabre Hacky Sacks from hell before being ripped to shreds and consumed in a feeding frenzy. (AUTHOR’S NOTE: I th...
Vaquero exhibit showcases traditional cowboy living
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Vaquero exhibit showcases traditional cowboy living
August 27, 2025
Pioneer Museum will present “Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy,” a traveling exhibition by the Wittliff Collections, starting on Monday, Sept. 1. The collection is from the Alkek Library of Texas State University and presented in partnership with Humanties Texas, the state affiliate for the Natio...
Gayne shares the Legend of the Clearwater Beach ‘Monster’
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Gayne shares the Legend of the Clearwater Beach ‘Monster’
by Gayne C. Young 
August 20, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Very strange things were afoot in Clearwater Beach, Florida in the late 1940s. The discovery made along the small coastal town just after World War II, would terrorize locals, fascinate the nation, and take nearly four decades to fully comprehend. Our story began in 1948, when indiv...
Empty shores make for the perfect beach
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Empty shores make for the perfect beach
by Gayne C. Young 
August 13, 2025
Outdoors On Edge The idea was to find the perfect beach, one isolated with powdery sugar white sand, tranquil gin-clear waters, and a soft ocean breez...
Fishermen make jawsome catches in Aransas Pass, Gulf
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Fishermen make jawsome catches in Aransas Pass, Gulf
by Gayne C. Young 
August 6, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Morning came far too early for my friends, Will Crowe, Joel O’Shoney and me. The day before we had collectively landed four blacktip ...
How to reel in a 60-pound blacktip on the Aransas Bay
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
How to reel in a 60-pound blacktip on the Aransas Bay
by Gayne C. Young 
July 30, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Acadaverous gray dorsal fin cut through the storm cloud dark water. It sliced forward and through the glasssmooth surface, then slipp...
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
HCSPCA flies high for fundraising
July 30, 2025
The Hill Country SPCA (HCSPCA) is hosting The Great Helicopter Ball Drop at Lady Bird Johnson Golf Course Driving Range on Saturday, Aug. 30. The anim...
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Meals For Vets to raise funds on Aug. 2-3
July 30, 2025
Meals For Vets will be conducting a pre-sale event in August ahead of its Hill Country Vet-Fest event later in the year. Volunteers will be at Chase B...
Camel Trophy revive is for soccer moms, not smokers
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Camel Trophy revive is for soccer moms, not smokers
by Gayne C. Young 
July 23, 2025
Soccer moms rejoice. Your new vehicle is almost here. Land Rover is reimaging and rebranding its classic SUV. The new 2025 Land Rover Defender 110 Tro...
Rolling and boiling for fish on Lake Michigan
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Rolling and boiling for fish on Lake Michigan
July 16, 2025
It was pitch black, almost to the point of freezing, and the swells of Lake Michigan beneath me were rising and falling in rapid fivefoot- tall secess...
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