Cartoons: Fishing Fun
For Herbert Hoover, fishing is a way to return to the simplicity of our forefathers. Let’s look at our cartoonists’ viewpoints.
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Tag Archives: fishing
Angling for Blueberries
This delicate dish combines sweet blueberries with savory trout.
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Classic Covers: Women in Sports in the 1900s
Did you think that ladies in the early part of the 20th Century just did needlework and played piano? I was surprised to find some of our earliest Post covers depicted the feminine side of several sports.
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Grover Cleveland Wants More American Fishermen
Profane, idle liars? No! thundered the ex-president. America’s fishermen are the virtuous backbone of their country.
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Life in the Shadow of a Distant War
Part one of a series on the hopes and disappointments of Americans enduring a lengthy war overseas.
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Norman Rockwell’s Cousin Reginald
The adventures of Norman Rockwell’s city-slicker-turned-country-boy, Cousin Reginald.
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Fishing for a Better Self
Is there a style of fishing that is more fascinating or spiritually satisfying than catching one on the fly?
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Hook, Line, and Stinker
Hook, Line, and Stinker Wife to husband: “One of those trout you were fishing for last weekend called and left her phone number.” Karen S. Chilos
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The New Fishing: Hook, Line, and Sonar
Fishing has changed monumentally since the days when standard fare was a bamboo pole with a worm-baited line tossed into the water, “a jerk on one end of the line waiting for a jerk on the other,” as the sport has been playfully described.
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A Fish Tale
As we all walked up the dock toward shore, a young man of 11 or 12 sat on the opposite side of the dock from the boat, holding a piece of cord that disappeared into the water. Setting next to him was a box of ice-cream cones.
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