Guest Column
Mike Wilson: A story about namesakes
I was once told that I was named Michael after my mother’s favorite great uncle Mike Omar, who served as Marshal of Lambert, Mississippi for ...
Mike Wilson, Author at Farmville
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Mike Wilson: Lick Creek days: The bream rock
As a sexagenarian, I have lost almost all of my enthusiasm for baking outdoors in the summer midday sun for most any reason. Period. I ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, March 8, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: Vehicles I have known and not necessarily loved
There is an arresting and memorable image in “Sensation of Velocity,” a Vanguardist poem from the 1920’s by Jorge Luis Borges: that of a sleek ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, March 1, 2023 12:15 pm
Guest Column
Mike Wilson: Here’s some variations on buck fever
I shot my first deer as an adult in Virginia about 35 years ago. Here’s a story of a couple variations of buck fever. When ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: Lick Creek days: My river family
After I recently lectured to a Hispanic culture class about the profound importance of “fictive kinship” (social bonds unrelated to blood or marriage) in Latino ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, February 15, 2023 11:00 am
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Mike Wilson: ‘Boy with Stringer and Sheath Knife,’ painted 1966
One of my most prized possessions is a watercolor painted behind my back some years ago by an artist friend. It was done at the ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, February 8, 2023 12:00 pm
Guest Column
Mike Wilson: Attack of the Identified Flying Objects
Thinking back across the decades as we go through another January, I am struck by the thought that Identified Flying Objects actually inspire more fear ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, January 25, 2023 12:00 pm
Guest Column
Mike Wilson : I sympathized with Rodney Dangerfield
I was deeply saddened when my favorite comedian Rodney Dangerfield (you will remember him as bug-eyed, sweaty, and collar-stretching) passed away. His running gag “I’m ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, January 18, 2023 12:30 pm
Guest Column
Mike Wilson: It was a case of death by salami
I fear that, when conversations turn toward my historic inclusion on the Hap’s Grill Wall of Fame, I may sometimes seem braggadocious. (Okay, I confess ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, January 11, 2023 1:02 am
OPINION
Mike Wilson: Vaya con Dios, Jorge
It’s been a year now since my dear friend Jorge (aka Dr. Jorge Antonio Silveira y Montes de Oca) passed away at 93 in home ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, January 4, 2023 12:45 pm
OPINION
Mike Wilson: Hammy New Year!
“Desert Island Discs” is a very popular and long-running (since 1942) program on BBC Radio. Each week the guest “castaways,” usually celebrities, are asked to ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, December 28, 2022 12:30 pm
OPINION
Mike Wilson: An unexpected guest
Back when our girls were small, my teaching schedule at Hampden-Sydney College allowed us to make a grand sweep of the eastern U.S. during summer ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, December 21, 2022 12:00 pm
OPINION
Mike Wilson: That red clay Christmas
What I remember most about the Christmas of 1961 was seeing natural ice for the first time (at least, the first time I can remember) ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, December 14, 2022 12:00 pm
Columns
Mike Wilson: The high art of the low crawl
I killed my first duck, a hen mallard, while lying on my belly in soupy mud under buckbushes lining a creek that fed the Tennessee ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, December 7, 2022 5:48 pm
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Mike Wilson: The Hartford and the chair
I suppose I am sometimes viewed as “portly” by those with enriched active vocabularies. Accordingly, my chest waders (to use the nomenclature of most outdoor ...
by Mike Wilson, Tuesday, November 29, 2022 2:01 pm
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Mike Wilson: The christening of ‘The Lucky 7’
When the Briery Creek Wildlife Management Area, featuring hundreds of acres of flooded timber for bass fishing and duck hunting, opened in Prince Edward County ...