FRANKFORT, Ky. – I remember the thrill the first time my neighbor, Mr. Goff, let me go along with the older boys on an early season dove hunt in the country around Bloomfield, Kentucky.
We rode in the back of his white Chevy step-side pickup on the country roads of Nelson County as we made our way to the field. Excitement flushed through us, the sounds of tall grass brushing the underside of the truck bed meant we were almost there. I can still see his left arm sticking out the truck window holding onto a pipe with chunks...