May/June 2025

Please note: This issue was mailed out on 6/18/25.

ON THE COVER:
Detail from Kentucky Morning an original watercolor painting by Maria Freed.

CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
5 Prime Possibles
9 People to Watch Will Manire — Andrew Scott Wills
13 Doin’ It Yourself New Insights From an Old Pouch — T.C. Albert
25 Shooting the Bull Chain-Fires, Pre-Matures, and Other Unwanted Discharges — Mike Nesbitt
33 Dispatches from New England The Crossing — Vincent C. Spiotti
41 18th Century Traveler Kasper Mansker, Part I — Matt Wulff
49 Forgotten Trails Discovering the Blue Ridge Mountains — James A. Crutchfield
55 The Builder’s Bench A True American Warrior, American Colonial Builder John Jacob Scheetz’s “the Battle of New Orleans Rifle” — Jim Parker
61 On the Game Trail Six Miles from Bushy Run Station — Bob Brigode
66 Ric Lambert and the Longrifle Legacy — Ian Pratt
83 What’s in a Name, the Story of Burnt Cabins — Jason Cherry
93 Classified Ads
95 Index of Display Advertisers
96 For the Bookshelf