Asheville's Rob Neufeld on a new book on fly fishing by David Joy
What once was sacred has become quaint. Take, for example, “the way of animal powers,” the phrase Joseph Campbell used to describe the hunter’s mindset. Today, getting into the head of an animal and having a kill-worship relationship with it seems exotic.
The transformation of Simon Perkins is as startling as a stonefly nymph’s metamorphosis to a salmonfly. While guiding fly fishers on Montana’s Smith, Blackfoot and Missouri rivers for seven years, Perkins, 28, gradually shifted from the oars to a camera and emerged as a filmmaker.
Former Sonora resident Edward “Ed” Fredrick Harris died Jan. 27 at his home in San Jose. He was 67. Born in Lynwood to Ruth Cox and Dewey Harris, he grew up in Sonora and attended Modesto Junior College before going to Baylor University on a basketball scholarship.