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The Beginning Mr & Mrs Brody https://www.donbaronestories.com/our-history daily 0.75 2019-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1574377254551-EH3WH252MRT1XJWYW12P/bob+cartoon.jpg Our History Back when Bob was Bob Ley and we both worked on tons of ESPN stories together all over the place and won some awards and free donuts and a couple of dinners. 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Bowling and Lunch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1574913492515-JX017KATOCVFTBNVH72Z/IMG_0567.jpg A Burger and Free Bowling Shoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1574913979294-U50Y0S9U8HQ3YRRDLTDX/bob+ley.jpeg A Burger and Free Bowling Shoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1574914532332-3FSNQ4V3TVGL2QJ2CE4G/family+sign.jpeg A Burger and Free Bowling Shoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1574915267740-LOFZ1QXWCJRRTEM86KE1/the+end.jpeg A Burger and Free Bowling Shoes. https://www.donbaronestories.com/the-pogey-kings-of-kenmore daily 0.75 2026-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/ef20a784-7f9c-4020-9f34-e3164b23e5c9/Pogeying+1.jpeg The Pogey Kings of Kenmore - Ok, so before I get in depth into Pogey (what it is and how to do it) I need to introduce you to the self-proclaimed…Pogey Kings… …all three of us…this photo may, or may not, be one of us (lawyered up again just in case). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/b4aca6ac-388c-4439-9de2-f7f299027624/IMG_7624.jpeg The Pogey Kings of Kenmore - That’s me … …outside playing like it was summer time ‘cept with a bunch more clothes on cause it was snow time… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1578001684191-3BPXA48N6LCQFI9J81B8/snowball+pee.jpeg The Pogey Kings of Kenmore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/49ca48c4-3152-4dfe-8b41-5774fe7b6ff9/IMG_7623.jpeg The Pogey Kings of Kenmore - The Pogey Kings of Kenmore… …“That’s right Western New York, expect 36 inches of snow overnight…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/a981f8b5-a066-4e94-8f95-ce413ccb562a/Pogeying+1.jpeg The Pogey Kings of Kenmore - Pogey Explained… …by one of the Pogey Kings… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/926270c2-8b31-4446-9ce9-940b78fe0496/IMG_7622.jpg The Pogey Kings of Kenmore - Pogey Soaped Seems that ‘Stach” was so angry about “Cute” Maria Pogey Cornering and then waving at us… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/86850825-16e3-4856-8b68-5193637e9243/media-result-20220130-f5614002-88ad-431f-85d9-a9b4d1f6f6fd.png The Pogey Kings of Kenmore - There You Go… …dedicated to the Kenmore West Senior High School Class of 1970…May your Pogeys be many, many lightposts long. https://www.donbaronestories.com/past-stories daily 0.75 2022-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1595095499902-SLHWLQFEH61SEPZ3LTSY/on+a+mission+from+god+copy+3.jpeg Past Stories - Bob & Don Get Wood… …from a family barn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1595872789565-9QX4HS9M9VND0TVU23UM/696A3127.jpeg Past Stories - The Fog The Sea The Storm A coming of age, young and old, tale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/18a1c6b1-26d1-4c6a-87cd-093c7593d7ed/Pogeying+1.jpeg Past Stories - the Pogey Kings of Kenmore, NY. https://www.donbaronestories.com/look-back-2-ice-ice-baby daily 0.75 2020-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596555477651-58DHTP62XOYEPDKKH8FG/01.jpeg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596557354073-75T7QF3V7DA67ZRBT4WF/iceman.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - That’s Lake Champlain…frozed! And I’m standing on it, don’t necessarily want to be standing on it, but I am and I’m about a half mile out of Port Henry…in fact in just 6 months I will once again be on this water, this time though in a Bass boat with James Niggemeyer in my 1st ever Elite gig, but, you know, back to standing on water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596558963357-CYQTALIEFWR6CM2F7MGY/Michele.jpeg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - That’s Michele who used to work at the Kings Inn… …but also sort of doubled as my “ice observer.” I had called the big Dept of Weather with a simple question, “Can you tell me what day Lake Champlain will freeze up solid like…um, please.” They either couldn’t or wouldn’t so I somehow got Michele, who could see the lake from her job, look out the window everyday to see if Lake Champlain was Frozed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596559436414-NEUI6KK6RHM678LQQZA1/c09fe32aae7839a6596828fdaca4b611l-m34xd-w1020_h770_q80.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - A little behind the scenes side info here that didn’t make the story since it was before ESPN had grown real big balls yet… …this was the room of The Kings Inn, that ESPN Travel booked for me for a couple of nights, quaint turn of the century type of place… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596559526434-EEL1JEN1A0C8HGGBFA3P/c09fe32aae7839a6596828fdaca4b611l-m25xd-w1020_h770_q80.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - …It was right at the top of the these main stairs… …Michele told me you just go up the stairs and turn left, first room on the right. Cool I thought, no big deal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596559642137-HPKQHFCVQNT37U6LB5NC/c09fe32aae7839a6596828fdaca4b611l-m23xd-w1020_h770_q80.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - This was the bar I was sitting at when michele explained where my room was while also a few minutes later telling me that… …I’d be the only one staying in the place that night, and she gave me the keys to lock up after everyone left and THEN she says as we are standing looking at the stairs: “These are the stairs where my young daughter keeps saying she see’s a lady come down the staircase who ‘don’t got no feet.’ Ha sort of gliding down you know.” I left the next morning, ESPN Travel found me a hotel. True story! Yep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596560227490-PCIWV62P2Y7BVUQQOKNN/we+got+ice.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - …I get a phone call and all I hear is exactly this: “We got Ice,” and with that I’m on my way to Lake Champlain to meet, as they are known locally: The Ice Kings. Wait, what…Champ! An underwater bigfoot… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596563382749-E9X8LJXXDBSV4L6O2Y2F/iceman+04.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596564365721-K8KVUH715GEA18GMI7BP/uber+on+ice.jpeg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - So I climb aboard what can only be called Uber-on-Ice… …2 years before Uber-on-roads was even thought of https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596564505912-LZ5EJ9M0ZUXS8ABT0AZD/shanties.jpeg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - And head to What-ever-Ville… …which has a bunch of brightly colored Ice Shanties and… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596564695640-B0XQNJ2I2CXA85M4MMYH/RVanty.jpeg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - …this. I was told it’s an RVanty. I just shook my head in the polite but universal symbol for “ho-boy.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1596564833349-LWDZXRFRY34JCA0WPTMF/iceman+03.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - Also saw this… …which makes me think whoever is in that shanty has no problem right now social distancing. Just saying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597080542529-UHWNV1D1ZEVGTEDUM04N/iceman.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597081254368-WQKW4GPMRZBUYLPK0HN1/the+guys+1.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597081599586-JRZT6TILX9X04WSVPCOH/refrig.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - So these “shanties” are actually like little homes if in fact you built a little home on an iceberg or something. This one had… …a refrigerator other than you know, just the outside, had a thing you could cook on, a couple had TV’s and stereo systems… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597081780707-ZMWHMKXNMPVZIUM84K9B/iceman+07.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - Many looked sort of like this… …I was told, I think, this one is a “four holer.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597081880886-A5BQ0GBTF4EBBDNDJQMI/iceman+09.jpeg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - Um… …yep. Make that a 5-holer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597082078585-U7LJKYGPXCHWUBLZ4IS0/The+lord+of+the+lake+1.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597082247668-G5X3JO8TKJT6X4156MU0/lord+2+1.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - And so for an hour or two, maybe longer… …more I sit with Jim in a 12-holer, him in HIS spot by the open window, next to a gas stove, and we talk about fish… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597082410202-V8UYFERWF57VEK4XES0Z/iceman+11.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - “Used to be we’d catch these Smelt, one pounders, now… …they usually 4-6 ounces.” It is still very early morning and in his “smelt bucket he’s “got me maybe 10-15 pounds, doing ok.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597082655213-77PIIVHT2GVOMFYSLGR2/iceman+05.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - The pole he is fishing with today he made himself… …15 years ago. “My other poles over there I made them when I was in High School, 1955 or ‘56, still use them, will this afternoon.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597083377923-BKIMKK73Z4G0GPO7LJSY/flag+end+1.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - Under blue skies, on clear ice and with the red White and Blue Flag at Attention there sat… …Bryantsville, West Bank, East Channel, Lake Champlain, New York. This photo I took for myself because I knew when I got back to the mothership that is ESPN I would be asked one question.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597083841343-Z1LHTN9HYHE9H84JES4W/iceman+06.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - It was cold… …there but… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597084338885-LL8C8BV43FCIJ6JT1O7U/end+1.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" - …everyone I met was… …warm to me! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597085045470-YWG9FN0MSFG8BKIMS0P6/NICE+Mac+casting.jpg Look Back #2 "Ice Ice Baby" https://www.donbaronestories.com/look-back-3-fly-boys daily 0.75 2020-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597534654194-4Y4UX6LK2AQLAMHMJP6D/Screen+Shot+2020-08-15+at+7.36.09+PM.jpeg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - “ If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.” Zane Grey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597600393929-8BYMZYVKYPNY0OSZLOTI/10398043_10203802329400664_7574732094857658808_n.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - This is my Ortho/Buddy…Mac We are basically brothers from other mothers/planets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597600491687-14KJV52FSM6FXCZ7BQNH/IMG_1113.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - We have a lot of adventures together and if you don’t believe me… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597600549969-9E22TSFKK10LN0T2W2WU/Screen+Shot+2020-08-16+at+1.51.18+PM.jpeg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …all you have to do is go to google and type in my name & “Mac” …and these are just some of the adventures that come up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597601678033-LYH2YHN3TDBCBRXEQC2Q/flags+1.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - 12 hours 12!!! hours later …we arrive… (pee breaks, lunch break, clown in bathroom break) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597601784937-2O5XQCPX7Z1IFV50QDIS/camp+1.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …here at the lodge… …in New Brunswick and… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597601843805-190B4WER0PLTI4DO1YX8/river+1.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …Miramichi River. And we are joined by… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597601914691-TSP6RNLAPTTXDHT7UDU4/miramichi+docs.jpeg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …A bunch of Hipsters Some of whom sell hips, some of whom buy and use the hips, and a son…and Mac. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597602023226-OF6BEVZSGIMXB74J1JOF/george+1.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - And this is the Legendary Miramichi Guide…George Curtis. And his dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597602700007-ADQ0O94U4UE9VMRW663L/chairs+1.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …out there in the river… …which I’m not. I can see this fly fishing stuff just fine from here thank you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597602815574-RBA6J7O7HXR5AQ3E3YOA/NICE+Mac+casting.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - Mac it seems is having a blast… …BTW I shot this photo FROM LAND. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597602928813-B5ODTGG0QIDI1NIUK72E/having+fun.jpeg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - As are the Hipsters… …out there… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597603443310-9WPKMFB96K6S836895AB/miramichi+fish.jpeg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …at least… …some of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597604037915-WDCD0OR1AMXAPP1RWPVJ/miramichi+ted+williams.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597604476543-NQVXQF6AHSLOS5JS6GIK/ted+fly.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …one tiny fly. “I’m told it was the last fly he tied.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597605567163-JBFQ1NAEVBBK5VRSVHQ5/miramichi+fish+ju%2Cp.jpeg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …the right time… …on the… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597605617004-H8VFPDWLHXTN6RZGO6V1/miramichi+fish+1.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …world famous… Miramichi… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597605715709-B916WS6EDML4OJMQXDAZ/miramichi+bent+rod+1.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …River. Yep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597605819931-YYXDPDVVF870U510V2Z8/miramichi+annie.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …Annie… …who has been fly fishing all her life but to be honest she was one tough lady and i never got the Cojones to ask her just how long that was but… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597606028005-G6YM2I76PANZ953XP08G/annie+fish.jpeg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …Annie could fish… …and she used to say… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597606086649-7HN5PNG0O1CSX75YQPI4/top+rod.jpeg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …that whomever caught the biggest fish of the day… …their rod at the end of the day would get the top spot in the rack…that’s Annie’s rod up top there, it NEVER gave up that spot all the time I was there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597606419769-LO4VQ3BCGN7JS7ZZWE1X/miramichi+water+1.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …said goodbye to the Miramichi River… …up there after the right turn in Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597606849666-O1ECAMEN8SQ9XMRI6MA3/mirimachi+yellow+fly.jpeg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …and as I was leaving he handed me this fly saying “It’s the fly my father, Roy, made famous here on the river… …keep it for the next time you come up.” It is now in my sports treasure case. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598133568704-9VUFJRUT4YKT7A952F0F/i.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - While putting this lookback together I found out that George Curtis had passed away… …so sorry for his loss and prayers for his family… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597607248248-6TSL7OY9TMMN3JUPCC7L/IMG_2361.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - Back home I go through the Dozens… …of photos I took while up there in that New Brunswick and started writing what… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597607343836-P79Y0VDVML21ULJAYUEP/espn+open+1.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - ..turned out to be a 3-part story that went up on the mothership on… …May 8, 2007. if you’d like to read the full story which has a bunch more neat stuff in it just click HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597608433812-SKXRI561CU54IV3MEZP8/Danbury+rod+and+reel.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - The Danbury Rod & Reel Club… …and… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597608543391-A94ELMYD8FUIYWR9IM9P/IMG_2594.jpeg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …um…a Submarine… …and… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1597608594384-TIFHA274GU2W4LFW7QOL/Bob+and+me+laughing.jpg Look Back #3 "Fly Boys" - …another best bud… …Bob Ley. https://www.donbaronestories.com/lookback-4-the-race daily 0.75 2020-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598111445514-7OB8LOBEA55O0DSVWS9J/the+race.jpg LookBack #4 "The Race" - It was May, 2007 and I’m driving somewhere in a minivan… …with my buddy and world class ESPN anchor… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598111768073-2SHTONC3KZPVL2ZQFOVL/Bob+and+me+laughing.jpg LookBack #4 "The Race" - …Bob Ley. The dude has covered every major sport on the planet except it seems, one…Deep Sea Fishing for Striped Bass…but that is about to change. Let me try and explain… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598113235431-7X8U7V4Z0VT8P697CCDM/waves+copy.jpeg LookBack #4 "The Race" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598114579635-8Y1N59CHYRYZIKLF4D6O/the+captain.jpg LookBack #4 "The Race" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598115161692-5SGDVF8XE4H71TEPTDKH/the+ride+out.jpg LookBack #4 "The Race" - Needless to say… …it’s a long ride out to The Race and it’s still not even close to my alarm clock back home going off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598115329760-WKKZERKIZ3414QW34VBY/the+race+early+morning.jpeg LookBack #4 "The Race" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598115524387-LI8AZVI8WCICXL9K9K1C/big+rods+reels+cigars.jpg LookBack #4 "The Race" - …it is ON! Fishing for striPers and all up and down the boat… …big rods, big reels and big cigars are out and fishing, just like that, I pop another Dramamine, just like that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598115772347-D2P1TF72LC3K7KF2GOOP/me+via+bob.jpg LookBack #4 "The Race" - I’m not real sure if Bob fished or not… …I do know he was taking a bunch of photos though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598115938261-EP5NLTBVIW2DA7E9JQ91/and+then+the+fishing+began.jpg LookBack #4 "The Race" - Everywhere you looked the guys from the Danbury Rod & Reel club were fishing and… …catching. So I’m taking all sorts of photos, figure I should take one of this thing called The Race… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598116757064-RDHO0TI9E4NXN1VZXGXN/IMG_2668.jpeg LookBack #4 "The Race" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598117295449-J6DFN11SHUQD5WC9VMUM/Danbury+rod+and+reel.jpg LookBack #4 "The Race" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598117674580-RGV3JBVR2TILKZ1OTQH0/Screen+Shot+2020-08-20+at+12.37.30+PM.jpeg LookBack #4 "The Race" - to read the entire story in its, you know, Entirety… …click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598117906889-2DL1B5PAKXMYWQX4ZM09/i.jpg LookBack #4 "The Race" - I finally get to meet these folks called “Bassmaster Elites” My very first Bassmaster story: “Diary of a Bassmaster Virgin.” LookBack #5 https://www.donbaronestories.com/lookback-5-bassmaster-virgin daily 0.75 2020-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598650588203-OVP4M7E7L5EJR6PYRUEU/virgin.jpg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" - It was my first time to meet an Elite… …and this thing called Bassmaster Tournament Fishing. I thought beforehand it was a group of guys on a pier fishing and that the 1st one to catch a Bass, whatever that was, won what was left in the case of Budweiser beer. I was wrong, this is exactly how back then I described the sport… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598651120944-KP3JVN4A2WL39XHF6B9O/IMG_2717.jpeg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" - True story…as I was going back through my notes this envelope fell out… …it was the 1st time I ever saw it or opened it, BASS sent it to me for the event, it was all about being a Co-Angler… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598652647125-M27SU0298AOT25EDLZ26/P1010696.jpeg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598653895958-N22U5QVR6ZO2KL8491CM/james+1.jpg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" - And this was the Angler I was the “Co” to… …James Niggemeyer. I met him at that 1st Safe Light thing…it was dark… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598654006335-RHLVV6QPHP6BQNH3WROQ/IMG_2718.jpeg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" - …this photo shows me in James’ boat once it got light enough to take a photo… …we are about to launch here, me the “co” and he the “angler.” BTW, my buddy James Overstreet took this photo, we are great friends, it did though take me a year and a half before I could understand every word he mumbles to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598654283231-T5GJQCWH55ZHQRV0NZK3/db+james.jpg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" - …and we drive…or boat…or whatever you call it at several hundred miles an hours… …several thousand miles down Lake Champlain to the one spot, I assume, where the fish only live, near Ticonderoga NY…in fact just 7 months before this I was STANDING on this very lake (ice fishing story) at about the same place James was fishing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598655849932-EEBY0ZGV4O0LM4LLCEIO/IMG_4096.jpg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" - As it turned out… …over the years James, and his family, became family to me, one of those young folks you meet in life that becomes an adopted son to you, while I didn’t cherish him much as his “Co” that day…I certainly do this day, and all those days in between. He is a young man that makes the sport better because he is in it. Miss ya dude. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598658813209-FGNDCMI32HX2FX1MLE7B/IMG_1851.jpeg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598660023758-OYRQ06NXETSI7NOQOUYB/IMG_1422-32.jpg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598660830516-UR9MFTLYMTGKZ1TC7OP0/black+copy+2.jpg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" - About Mr. Short… …and the “Candy-Ass” quote… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598737944277-VEUPW7PJZRIZDZIWPFEK/P1050005.jpg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" - Turns out that we actually became… …best of friends, actually both Kevin, who I gave the name “K-Pink” to, and… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598738067356-XFGZ709IKNN48JY1MHVB/IMG_1964.jpg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" - …his wife Kerry who is now… …my younger older sister (along with Julia Kennedy). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598738148361-3ZQQPTPWQSSHAX873HIX/IMG_0645.jpeg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" - Kevin actually wrote a companion piece to my story… …and you can read K-Pink’s column here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1598738957272-I9BLWKP856OFAZXTMSZM/28229_1369438868933_1020551322_1128357_4482975_n.jpg LookBack #5 "Bassmaster Virgin" - Yep… …like brothers. https://www.donbaronestories.com/lookback-6-billionaire-bass daily 0.75 2020-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599873582184-D76YN2I97I5KAI0IV8QA/01.jpeg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass - After Inside the Outside #5 it seems that ESPN is digging this stuff. “So what’s next,” one of my several thousand bosses asked. “Um.” “Need something big we do, BIG.” “I know the guy who owns the Buffalo Bisons and he fishes and makes creme puffs and wicked cheesecake and is a billionaire.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599873918385-SD56T196V4U5XR56SFTS/01a.jpg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass - “Perfect great go….” “To Buffalo?” “Yep…and bring back some damn cheesecake.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599874083937-XWNFKFF3AS54KZQU90FS/02.jpg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass - …and so that was all it took to go inside the Outside once again… …for Bass & cheesecake with a billionaire. Can’t make this stuff up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599875159214-WVHGI8C3VKJ6G0TUOUXB/Bob+%26+Aquarium+012.jpg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599920594603-HQ2K1ZHGC9A9CD5PM593/lake+erie+rough.jpg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass - On this day Lake Erie was being lake EERY even the parking lot lady thought we were crazy to go out fishing… …I agreed with her, and yet, AND YET… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599920702572-HAB9OZTOUY7T4P0MM91X/db+with+br.jpeg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass - …we still launched. Yep…we did…cheesecake…cheesecake…cheesecake… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599920793962-ZZTE1B6ZDV46ENEMAL7K/Jim+Hanly.jpeg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass - Bob has his own boat guy who takes him out, dude’s name is Jim Hanley, another bud and buffalo guy so… …I trust his instincts, you know, sort of…cheesecake…cheesecake…cheesecake… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599920993289-8M5MP27GRXDAF4UJ4N6X/bob+rich.jpg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass - So okay, Bubba here has a lot of money (and desserts) and can be all cEO’d up but… …if you really want to know the true dude, put a fishing rod and reel in his hand and… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599921129161-9J4FU80S3QAS0J9PAS5H/bob+catching.jpg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass - …some water under his arse and it turns out he’s an ANGLER at heart, he may love all the stuff he does and owns but fishing is his LOVE other than family… …and possibly cream puffs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599921249760-TBDWLGXHDZ1XSL2VTBG1/um+time+to+go.jpeg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599921665251-WSCFUCAY07H6NGRVIEYY/Gramps+dock.jpeg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass - Once the storm passed without anyone in the boat passing on we headed back to dock but… …as we did we idled past this urban dock, not sure if the people in the boat knew why I took so many photos of it…but…I did so because this is the very dock, without the words painted, that as a small child I went “fishing” with my Grandfather, Clay. I was glad it was raining then, those were only raindrops on my cheeks if anyone noticed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599922090544-Y1HMQS74L4S8LKBH5BY1/IMG_2802.jpeg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1599922290545-AV3MP7BSD86GOYNY8F7K/Beef+on+weck.jpeg LookBack #6 Billionaire Bass - Once the story was done but before heading out of town HAD to stop and get one… …possibly three Buffalo famous Beef on Weck…then jump on the thruway headed East, radar-detector on high facing a story deadline, and, um, you know…several cheesecakes in the back seat!!! Click here to read the original Billionaire Bass Club story on the mothership that is ESPN db https://www.donbaronestories.com/home daily 0.75 2025-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1712521396392-QICXXRHFP3NA5TZVOGL4/Roads+Scholar+coverv3.png Home https://www.donbaronestories.com/wayback-on-pavement daily 0.75 2022-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/a454a98f-967a-4db1-b44c-6b2899740627/01.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/343e4d34-5453-4478-833b-686d1d0313d5/bristol+pd.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - As I was walking into the parking lot… …the crowd was still, heads bowed, some people praying softly in whispers, others praying within themselves for the two Bristol CT police officers ambushed and killed a few days ago. God bless them, and God help us for what we do to each other. I do not take photos of moments like this, never have, never will, there you go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666711193905-KBCIFSKAWDO3IDW56FJH/04.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666711195744-TM08CJGQZ42WR4UBK3SA/03.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666712829434-2E0VKSZGA4X6S3LUUNPC/57+chrome.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666712834832-3RO3H2FOEIFM6EK6CPQ4/country+squire.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666712846710-U8LSQ59O7HZIUK9D41LQ/red+ford.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666712853936-GIP5A6IJTH36VARM837E/yellow8fin.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666712861506-J85WTWR4NU74MN013JP4/car+latern.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666712862674-9SXNHZF9AEYABIS64GZR/red+headlight.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/b23a0c11-a7aa-45ea-b94f-e137b806f72e/wood+whell+close+up.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - “Do you mind if I hold that wheel sir…” Said powered within two breaths mangled and raspy from decades of unfiltered cigerettes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/0202c99c-d796-444c-b97f-d907b2b31a42/holly+carbs+c%3Au.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/4159d900-6e8a-4383-89d1-eeeb2ea10588/road+runner.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/ced165a4-8132-43ba-8654-9c6fe963f761/Engine+closeuplr.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - It was all about speed back then… …most of my “gearhead” buddies had muscle cars long before any of them had any actual real muscles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/f818193a-2ca6-49fa-adc6-5256844a3f76/camaro+ss.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/c269017d-28d6-46b7-9e87-2e1a8c2a208d/cool+old+vette.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - …and he was staring at… …this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666777709382-OR9T2EO09U6G6TTUDP71/corvette+namebadges.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666777720589-CZSZ4O9LLA8ZQMIZTJWP/corvette.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666780983546-7PB797ZPEYWA8S9R8ISV/blue+curves.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666780996947-6ZPEGKILDK34ML3Z59NC/ford+grill.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666780982584-UWUWU53GWU0P4G3ZC6OB/696A5231.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666780989485-D1LZT0JWTT794O08T6GS/blue+horn.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666780991136-57CL58UZSEWYZM78UZ5D/bluerad.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666780973974-FIAZHM9ABSG0LKK0EVQO/bill+engelke+trucking.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666815214351-HBKV5FWH3G33L3OS1A4V/bird+radiator+cap.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666815234760-5Z4CU8DUM0563TPFESL4/696A5320.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666815225149-AH5L522UZDFM03TQLSB0/black+meadowbrook.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666815237355-6PETX8G3UNLEFIISZL92/blue+truck.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666815259546-LGP1644DLHPPPA1M325N/cobra+wheel.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666815245659-DTUADL2S0XLC32QM2XU1/cobra+side+vent.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666815259567-PO68QPCUFGAE4NTSRFSA/desoto+front.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666815270842-WV966PEZVSZOT94C5YWN/fireflight+logo.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666815273264-T1ZPGC19P4X544GXG76Z/key+starter.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666815273789-69BMN1KGOKH6EX8PFLJI/red%3Ablack.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666815278861-B8M5J0UWJ5NX8WLYKTBR/white+chevy+logo.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1666820970177-084K2W40GNGD3XO7MDH2/ford+radiator+top.jpeg Wayback On Pavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/fef785b8-3571-4096-88ee-52f8d9ea2a93/mustange+grill.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/8d4de967-c0fd-4400-b338-87db07c7082c/old+truck+05.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/5dd9669b-d52c-40a2-885d-2488ab6f9656/old+truck+06.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - The Old rusty truck sat amongst all the waxed sparkly chrome… …as if it was a retired longshoreman sitting with a draft beer at the far end of the bar in a sawdust floor Gin Mill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/f264e5fd-8d82-4693-9545-53d3827e4dbc/old+truck+03.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - It knew it belonged here, knew it earned its place… …not real sure about all these other pretty-boys taking up spots though, “Craft” cars possibly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/b051fd7c-060a-479f-8c06-96537d875080/old+truck+1.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - I watched as most of those who walked by the old rusty truck stopped to look, to touch, to smile… …it was as if amongst all the glitter, all the chrome, all the 4-wheel stars they had finally found…KIN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/d9012b3a-85dd-413d-99bd-065ff7ef4f7a/696A5267.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - An old truck is The Common Man made of iron… …it is as well known to most as is the “old Neighborhood” they grew up in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/af87380f-3bfd-449e-bf55-f6362aa9c6d3/monster+rad+cap.jpeg Wayback On Pavement - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donbaronestories.com/vet-fishing-candlewood daily 0.75 2023-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/bffff9e9-dc3f-41a0-9545-33fd81e1f175/candlewood+cvr.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - “Over there,” never leaves you. Don’t matter none where “over there” was, “over there” sticks to you. Sticks harder to some than others but sticks it does. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/6dd89189-c954-4604-8c52-e390582ba850/696A9682.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/4d5a289f-e5bb-476c-9896-24892d822523/696A9648.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/58f4d0fb-44f5-40a0-91f5-78a6894790fc/696A9675.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - Through my telephoto lens I watched the boats come down the lake… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/6752faba-3173-44d9-9329-5c2086be5eaf/couple+with+Jimmy.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - …as they came close, I could see the faces of the volunteers and the vets. Many of the volunteers were also vets, kinship on Candlewood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/49ccd5e1-94e6-40fe-a0d7-ef40a9dea469/boats+lined+up.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - A few boats turned left and headed to the “new” dock where some wheelchairs were parked… Other boats turned right and beached on the sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/b33c781d-720d-4e0d-be5f-a9baab003a2c/696A9718+2.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - The weigh-in tent, filled with “oh’s” some “ah’s” as the fish were put on the scale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/083fa4e0-8690-454e-8965-b99ec936c26f/696A9729.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - Three pounders, four pounders…and a 6+ pounder that everyone crowded around to see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/493b2d32-733a-455a-96e3-3058093b123d/696A9770.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - …and food… …free food! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/b5a9f4a2-5b6c-489b-a366-191dfc44ca21/sarge.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - Meet Joe Kawalski These folks are here today because of the work of Joe Kowalski, a good buddy, a man with rugged edges soothed by a gentle heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/00eec658-7e1c-4673-a16f-e548db460a14/25+boat+drivers.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/989b0027-0e00-4c76-9143-5191fc1d5e4a/take+a+vet+fishing+hat.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - So, you know, I chose to not interview any of the vets who took part in this event… …I did write down some names but left without doing any interviews. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/4389239d-5bb7-45d8-9ef5-025eb97dae91/candlewood+02+copy.jpeg Vet Fishing Candlewood - END It is always to the blue we come, to the water that gives life to this rock in space. Candlewood is a manmade lake, some 8.4 square miles of blue, 40 feet deep most places. And to it these vets come every year for, as Sarge told me, “It’s like therapy when I fish, for them too you know.” Therapy. https://www.donbaronestories.com/harkness-state-park daily 0.75 2023-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/3184472f-30e7-4a5e-a3f0-3f7bb4a0ae04/New+Project-27.jpeg Harkness State Park - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/332d3f0e-0b0f-460d-8d46-802a15a54374/696A5272.jpeg Harkness State Park - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/ad5c17ea-889a-4d23-bfe9-0adc9055bf2c/696A5327.jpeg Harkness State Park - So, like everything else around here that is really old… …there is always some Rockerfeller, John D, connection, here to, basically a guy in Ohio somehow made a ton of money with John-D and decided that he should live where he could keep an eye on Johnny, so he moved here to be on the Connecticut/Long Island Sound… (T/O…that’s not a painting, I monkeyed around the innards of the Canon 5d and when I switch to that function the photo comes out looking like a painting….most times) …so in 1907 Edward and Mary Harkness buy a mansion here, decide in 1918 that their place needed some fixing up which took until 1929 to complete. Personally I might have gotten a different handyman who might have worked quicker…just saying. At some point Ed and Mary pass away and in 1950 all the land and fixed up house became the property of the state of Connecticut. In 1952 the state gave it to us, as a park where if you have a CT license plate on your car, you can get in free to wander around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1698075551608-OXJYS14ALFM9YI5M7UQZ/696A5265.jpeg Harkness State Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1698075550984-V2AL7NOW907JE7ADVMHS/696A5332.jpeg Harkness State Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1698075554258-PL9JOIHBMUA6M3BZSZ4Z/696A5309.jpeg Harkness State Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1698081889886-8B8NGNN9P5HZFICKHM78/696A5350.jpeg Harkness State Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/f95ce014-64ca-49bd-8eb7-eae6fa77ecf7/696A5304.jpeg Harkness State Park - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/99e4b778-7c31-49ba-adf7-84742c0c3e46/696A5335.jpeg Harkness State Park - May do some more wandering, if I do I’ll take you along (figuratively speakin’)… …but hey try to wander, you don’t have to board a plane or big arse cruise ship to see things, you’d be surprised what you will see if you just walk around and take the time, to look. https://www.donbaronestories.com/the-pie-baking-queen-of-the-fresno-county-fair daily 0.75 2023-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/ec78d469-cefb-4310-b653-5a876b12b1bb/The+Pie+baking+queen+of+the+....png The Pie Baking Queen of the Fresno County Fair https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/029ede9e-4960-4785-819e-80ac26879ea0/Screenshot+2023-11-08+at+4.21.23+PM.png The Pie Baking Queen of the Fresno County Fair - Fresno, 1982, maybe 1983. Cameraman, Scotty Sherlock. Fresno County Fair. The Pie Baking Queen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/633d03d9-1bbe-4fd9-ac08-b4edaef12b01/pie+recipe.png The Pie Baking Queen of the Fresno County Fair - “Ah, no.” “Do you want to taste the pie.” “No thanks.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/7b4b1e4a-f832-48e1-b81b-a2ab61733ce2/211617322_10225740994101715_3815978932760529406_n.jpg The Pie Baking Queen of the Fresno County Fair - Scotty, out with the new guy, doesn’t say anything, the blue TDK video tape camera (that’s a film camera he’s holding there but it’s the only photo I could find) on his shoulder never moves. The Lady, “Hmmm.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/c9c33745-5de9-464e-aed5-d7cbd92afb25/thumb+pie.jpeg The Pie Baking Queen of the Fresno County Fair “…I’ll tell you why…” As I waited to hear, I saw the blue TDK camera slowly pan down off her face, Scotty took a step back, slight re-rack focus, my eyes followed the camera to see her hands, her left thumb move ever so slightly across the rim of the tin pie disk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/7ae40726-bbae-4cdf-a584-bc166a2e4086/IMG_4434.JPG The Pie Baking Queen of the Fresno County Fair - I don’t remember her name. I don’t remember if the story ever ran. The most memorable person I ever interviewed was the Pie Baking Queen of the Fresno County Fair. The daughter of migrant workers who went from picking berries with her mother and father, to baking berries and winning. I learned at that moment in the 4H tent that you, not anyone else, determines what it is you chase in life, you determine the finish line and who it is that you run the race for. You. I also learned this, never ask how, always ask, why. db PS: Someday I’ll tell you why I look like that in my press photo, I had just walked into the KFSN newsroom and was told I had to take a picture for the photo ID…I look like that because I had just crashed…an F-16 Fighter Jet… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1699486928488-7ZT2CJABGXSIBJYFZQH2/IMG_0338.JPG The Pie Baking Queen of the Fresno County Fair https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1699486929178-QCLMZLGWFX98DU4ZZL8K/IMG_0347.JPG The Pie Baking Queen of the Fresno County Fair https://www.donbaronestories.com/buffalo-1958-the-magic-of-christmas daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/bf764bd9-8b2c-433c-9e7a-a5927dce2449/New+Project-41.jpg Buffalo 1958 The Magic of Christmas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donbaronestories.com/buffalo-1958-the-magic-of-christmas-part-2 daily 0.75 2023-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/bc757ab5-96a7-46fd-88f0-05c4b6292628/A+M+%26+A%E2%80%99s+Winter+Wonderland.jpg Buffalo 1958 The Magic of Christmas: Part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/77c1f23b-c01f-4e52-a795-fd6f5bda0cc7/everywhere+I+looked.jpeg Buffalo 1958 The Magic of Christmas: Part 2 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/5c18116f-69be-45cd-8278-1832f58889c5/child+c%3Au.jpeg Buffalo 1958 The Magic of Christmas: Part 2 - I reach up and Gram grabs my hand… …and leads me to one of the A M & A’s large front display windows through which I see Elves moving about, people singing, reindeer, wrapped gifts…and an endless stream of nose and handprints on the window at just about 3 to 4 feet off the ground level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/4b5adbe2-f16b-46f0-9807-952f21716e9b/she+sat+alone+just+watching.jpeg Buffalo 1958 The Magic of Christmas: Part 2 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/ea9819b5-0dac-4ea5-a56e-b24847b9efc8/end+pic.jpeg Buffalo 1958 The Magic of Christmas: Part 2 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/24179bd6-89a4-4935-a6c0-82ee45934826/07.jpg Buffalo 1958 The Magic of Christmas: Part 2 - Merry Christmas db https://www.donbaronestories.com/an-open-letter-to-the-2024-bassmaster-classic-anglers daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/d00d0066-177c-4ac8-aa86-385f293bf7ef/IMG_1356.JPG An Open Letter to the 2024 Bassmaster Classic Anglers - Many of you fishing this gig these next few days may not even know who I am… …no one’s fault, just how life, age, health play out through the short time we have here on this planet… …or up there on that Bassmaster Stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/d6077856-a21a-4cfc-9de5-a2484812281c/03.jpeg An Open Letter to the 2024 Bassmaster Classic Anglers - Legend Legend come from the word legacy. Legend is about what you do on the field of play. Legacy is about what you do off the field. Legend is about numbers. Legacy is about deeds. Legacy is about who you are and what you do for the game, for the fans, for history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/9f1e673f-129c-497e-b9d5-0e8d0684eb34/10.jpeg An Open Letter to the 2024 Bassmaster Classic Anglers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/365c8b45-ec96-420e-a268-66906dc40d8d/11.jpeg An Open Letter to the 2024 Bassmaster Classic Anglers - Those who love you will continue to do so… …Your children, those there on stage with you, will one day tell their children, your grandchildren about that day in March long ago when Grampa won the Bassmaster Classic. Legacy, it sits not on a mantle or in a fancy glass case. But in the hearts and stories of all those who come after you. “Grampa won the Bassmaster Classic ya know…” Legacy. db Connecticut 2024 https://www.donbaronestories.com/dance-with-me daily 0.75 2024-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/78ed2377-2210-4983-bb33-1af6d7cfdb97/where+we+once+stood.jpg Dance With Me - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/61406a13-264a-4d35-8c3a-ec1903cb37f7/the+family+Kennedy.jpeg Dance With Me - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donbaronestories.com/christmas-eve-1969 daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/efd80773-050c-446b-b31e-f54e50a6f98d/prologue+cvr.png Christmas Eve 1969 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/5c751766-3c6a-46be-a18a-ab20b1ab1875/stockcake-upscale-1280866-1736550046873.png Christmas Eve 1969 - It is Christmas in Buffalo, NY… ….and it is snowing. From within the park they come. One by one. They come cold, they come shivering, they wear boots, they wear shoes, they wear sneakers. They come hungry, they come sick, they come dirty, they come injured. They are here because they have nowhere else to go. And they listen as Mr. Jackson plays just for them. It is Christmas in Buffalo, New York. And it is snowing. And Mr. Jackson is shivering. He does not brush off the snow on his shoulders nor on his hat. Slowly he shuffles his feet and turns my way. I bend down and lift up the box that is now empty of food. Mr. Jackson nods his head and slowly turns towards the woods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/9add0182-97ea-4f8d-9f70-fb889d2533c3/homeless+in+snow.png Christmas Eve 1969 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donbaronestories.com/we-meet daily 0.75 2025-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/4ee039ac-eaf7-4611-8cda-645381006e43/Chapter+1+cvr+opem.png Chapter 1 We Meet - Chapter One: I meet Mr. Jackson Dateline: Buffalo, NY 1969…July It is the summer that I turned 17 years old. I am a gang member and part time numbers runner. I have a new motorcycle, and a very fast muscle car. I am sitting in a bar with a guy named Manny, a friend/boss old enough to be my father. I am the only white guy in the place. The band is playing music I’ve never heard before. They call it Jazz, or maybe the Blues? I think it sucks and I want to leave but Manny wants me to meet someone, a friend of his, the Sax player up on stage. The name of the place is Whispers Bar & Grill, East Side, Buffalo, NY. The Sax player’s name is Mr. Jackson. At the time I didn’t know it but Mr. Jackson, between sets would change my life. For good. And he would do so with music and a well-used paperback book. Friendship too. His Name Was Mr. Jackson…he told me, “Just call me, Mr. Jackson.” And so I do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/9ddd07a8-bd13-4b94-a95a-87979d3dd731/you+blows+who+you+isFacebook+Cover%29.png Chapter 1 We Meet - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/94ff5697-cac1-47fc-bd4c-d8f8e2debe93/stockcake-upscale-1221699-1736644762629.png Chapter 1 We Meet Mr. Jackson stirs his drink, looks at his watch and says, “I got 10 minutes to my next set, so you got 8 minutes to tell me, who you.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/70b9e840-4cc1-4730-bf17-4a1e383b2b68/4minsnewpic-2.png Chapter 1 We Meet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/3cff0962-e80c-4423-8f47-bb9bad6c862a/charlie+parker+quote.png Chapter 1 We Meet - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donbaronestories.com/chapter-2-band-set-2-break daily 0.75 2026-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/475b14f5-d066-4736-8e4d-aa97b807f6e5/blues+come+out.png Chapter 2: Band Set 2 Break - Chapter 2: Blues Set Break #3 I am standing by the service bar eating maraschino cherries when the bartender turns his back. Set #3 is almost over, or is over, or not, who can tell with this music. This Mr. Jackson guy eyes me over the crowd sitting at the tables, he puts his saxophone in some sort of stand, wipes his chin and steps off the stage, walks through the crowd, shakes a few hands, kisses a few pretty cheeks, gets to Manny’s table, says something to Manny and then turns my way and points his finger at me and then his hand makes a round swoop as he points down toward my empty chair. I’m being summoned. I turn, grab another cherry by its stem, tip it his way as if it is a hat and then stick it in my mouth and take a bite. I never take my eyes off him. Nor him of me. Your move sax-man. Your move… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/4ef5d8ac-fe80-445a-9d59-52555d19c5fe/blade.png Chapter 2: Band Set 2 Break - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/cd753ee2-17c3-4297-bbba-b058f4e886bf/Screenshot+2026-02-14+at+2.37.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Chapter 2: Band Set 2 Break - “Honey you best go over and sit with those men u nless you want to be a punk-ass the rest of your life." I turn to see who just said that, at the far end of the bar' I can see a bartender putting on a show mixing drinks...…when I spin completely around I come face to face with Betty the cocktail waitress who in her left hand is holding a tray of drinks, in her right hand…a sawed-off baseball bat… …a bat that looks like it has been used…plenty. “You been there long.” “Yep” “You ever use that thing.” “Yep, and you was about to be next.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/aa19cdb2-dd61-4c25-a5b2-b910b3b3f457/skelton+end.png Chapter 2: Band Set 2 Break - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donbaronestories.com/gotham-blue-chapt-1 daily 0.75 2025-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/2ae19861-70b3-4a8e-b750-031284af01d7/Gotham+Blue+chapt1.jpeg Gotham Blue chapt 1 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/70fb2de1-93da-4758-a583-4fc1cb1e3074/go+right.png Gotham Blue chapt 1 - It was July 4th. small recon… …not a full ass RIF, just weed out and DH5 or DH10 planted about, then... ...fire from somewhere, Tommy went left, I stayed at point and motioned Roger to the right. I waved him to his death, to this day I don’t know why I did that, did that you know, that on me, that be all over me, stick to me like a mid-week stink. When I got to him, I told him he going to be ok, but he weren’t, parts of him all over the place, all over the place, some hanging from a tree you know, I did my best to keep him looking at me, no need for him to see that you know. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/a47b3779-c697-4352-bf93-ee280c7c8bc4/stockcake-upscale-206049-1736877853311.png Gotham Blue chapt 1 I kissed his forehead, whispered I loved him, I did… He smiled. Mouthed something. Then he died. Me too, I died then, his body died that day in that muck… …took my soul that day… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/144f9443-03db-466a-ac90-431ae68b7626/stockcake-upscale-1198741-1736878326087.png Gotham Blue chapt 1 - …I held him, rocked him… …those minutes holding him, rocking him until the medivac came, heard Tommy yell out MFW, MFW one casualty… …but in truth, there were two… https://www.donbaronestories.com/numbers-story daily 0.75 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/21cde2b2-305c-46a0-bb73-d555f2bfec8b/Tense+interrogation+under+dim+lights.png Numbers Story - Prologue Precinct #46 Homicide Div “You need to sit with him…” “Are you okay.” “You need to sit with him, I’m not going back in that room.” “Um, are you ok, I’m calling the Captain…” “You need to sit with him.” “Why.” “Why, I asked him how many people he has killed…” “And…” “He just looked at me, didn’t blink, he, he, he…he didn’t look up, he, he just stared at my breasts, he…” “Come on sit down, sit down…” “…then, then he slowly raised his head, his gaze, he, he, then he was just staring at me, eye to eye, then, then, he…” “Here’s some water slow down just drink…” “I can’t, can’t, shaking too much, he, he just looked at me, then, he, then…” “What, what then what, what…” “Then he said, said, ‘How many did I kill, that’s a tough question, tough you know.” “And then I asked him why was it tough, did he know or not, then, then, he, he said, asked if…” “What, asked what.” “If I had a calculator handy.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/481842e9-f207-4193-864a-b460136ed10e/prison Numbers Story - 1/2/2004 Maximum Security Prison Execution Chamber “State your name.” “Robert Paul Leonard” “Mr. Leonard do you have any last words.” “Yes.” “You may speak now before I put the hood over your head, what say you.” “46.” “Excuse me.” “46 and…” “Excuse me…and…and what?” “…climbing.” 1/2/2004 Maximum Security Prison Execution Chamber 12:06 PM Robert Paul Leonard: Deceased. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/476fcb19-b2d9-4e88-b15c-50048a9ac6f5/Butchers+at+work+in+premium+meat+shop.png Numbers Story - 6/15/2016 Wine & Dine Groceries…Portage, NY Meat Department “You got this.” “Uh huh.” “Hey man I just want to say thank you, I have to tell you this girl is hot, I mean HOT!” “Uh huh.” “Well thanks for taking my shift tonight, I’ll fill you in on all the juicy details of our date on Monday.” “Uh Huh.” “See ya Tony, don’t slice off any of your fingers now.” “Uh Huh.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/1ac2cb56-45d2-4c14-979d-0f979b6b7227/Crime+scene+at+the+butcher+shop.png Numbers Story - 7/4/2024 It is Monday, the 4th of July and yellow crime tape is draped across the Wine & Dine Groceries and Spirits supermarket front door. No one is allowed in. Not even the local police. Just the feds. Inside, the meat department is being taken apart, all the steaks are counted, weighed and put in large evidence coolers. The brown paper the steaks are all wrapped in only have numbers written on them… …301…302…303… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/dae7f8d3-a67e-4ca8-a3a4-bb24b0af599a/Passenger+in+aisle+of+airplane.png Numbers Story - 07/05/2024 Pittsburgh Airport International Terminal “Good morning, Sir, welcome to National Airlines, it is such a lovely day to fly, may I ask what’s your destination this beautiful day.” “Paris, Paris, France.” “Oh, I’m so jealous. Fun or for work.” “Both.” “How nice, what may I ask is your work.” “Wholesale, I sell wholesale U.S. Grade A meat to the finest restaurants in the world.” “Well Paris is a great place to do that…here’s your boarding pass Mr., Mr. Tony Leonard, Jr., have a nice flight. “I will.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/ab4dbeeb-5f9c-4008-96ed-9d12269b34a3/Fresh+ribeye+steak+with+label+304.png Numbers Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donbaronestories.com/numbers-the-short-story daily 0.75 2026-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/29051afe-a9e9-4b6c-95b3-96705e78b80b/Screenshot+2026-02-18+at+3.41.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Numbers The Short Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/b632d536-6362-476b-aa9c-28e15bca4016/Screenshot+2026-02-26+at+1.00.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Numbers The Short Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donbaronestories.com/18993 daily 0.75 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/fa737279-ad96-4282-b457-3f569512e058/steak+brew+motorcycle.png 18,993 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donbaronestories.com/store daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://www.donbaronestories.com/store/su71jqagj69nct8mlh0j5algnm02hx monthly 0.5 2026-02-19 https://www.donbaronestories.com/store/tips-help-sponsor-noir-writing monthly 0.5 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba00b4bc258b495f8a466f1/60797a1e-21e0-426e-8735-52e094d86058/db%E2%80%99s+Serial+Noir+Novellasv2-2.png Store - Tips: Help Sponsor Noir Writing https://www.donbaronestories.com/tips daily 0.75 2025-01-13