#jerry dennis

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All the Mackinacs, incidentally-- bridge, Straits, fort, and island-- are pronounced "MACK-in-awe". Visitors find this confusing. Only a few variations of the name, such as the town of Mackinaw City and the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw, are spelled the way they sound.

Jerry Dennis' The Living Great Lakes:  Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas 

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Things a Man Should Carry -- [PANK]

Pank Magazine :: 9.5 May 2014 :: Things a Man Should Carry by Jerry Dennis

TOBACCO BOX, TAR SOAP, TOWELS

Get a small tin tobacco box, flat, with rounded corners, boil it in two waters, and dry thoroughly.

You want equipment that tells a story and you better grab it while you can.

Your chance always pops up unexpectedly.

You must work quickly.

There is no time to fritter away.

Remember that satisfactory equipment goes with you everywhere, and does equally well for repelling enemies and removing foreign substances from the eye.

Grandpa’s tar soap makes a good lather and towels should be old (soft) and rather small.

Equipment of this sort is the most valuable a man can carry.

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"When we're discouraged by the madness of the world and need to involve ourselves in something elemental, we turn to water. This is a significant and perhaps universal urge, I think, and makes an excellent excuse to go fishing. Last night, more discouraged than usual, I set the alarm for early, almost the middle of the night. I wanted to be in the water before daylight."

Jerry Dennis, from "Wide Margins," in A Place on the Water: An Angler's Reflections on Home (St. Martin's Press, 1993)

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"We stand motionless, waiting. The cold water numbs my legs, even through insulated waders, wool pants, and polypropylene underwear. This is fishing that requires patience. I usually prefer more active versions of the sport. I like to move, to cast to feeding fish or search for inviting places where fish might be hiding. This has more in common with bait fishing for catfish than most forms of trout fishing.

But in certain moods it is satisfying. I once stood near a fisherman at the mouth of another river who remained still for so long that a sparrow fluttered to a landing on the top of his head, apparently mistaking him for a wooden piling. It's possible to become so serene you turn inanimate."

Jerry Dennis, from "Wide Margins," in A Place on the Water: An Angler's Reflections on Home (St. Martin's Press, 1993)

[hungeristheonlystory]

It is a land held together by water. That is one feature shared throughout. An ocean of freshwater. A rolling, rushing, surging, gushing, lapping abundance of water, enough to slake the thirst of nations, enough to float a civilization, enough to be the envy of the world. It's a motherlode - the motherlode - and we cherish it, ignore it, hoard it, waste it, guzzle it, cleanse our sins in it, and use it as a toilet.

Prologue, The Windward Shore by Jerry Dennis

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It all still hurts, folks. Tune in LIVE this Monday night, 10pm EST sharp for an all-new episode of The Four Horsemen! This week: Jerry re-enacts the Ralph Macchio part in the film Crossroads, Phil teaches us all how to be a man, Chris laments his very existence and we might even have special guests! Your calls are always welcome, and we always feel welcome to hang up on you if you're awful. So join us, call us, and get those important muscles ready for 90 minutes of completely clean material! No working blue in this house, for sure! Matter of fact, we're probably going to talk about our love for institutions and bureaucracies! If you love the state (or maybe if you loved The State), this is going to turn your life into that cartoon where Daffy Duck gets completely erased. You'll love it! See you on Monday!

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