GEORGIA OUTDOOR NEWS
The Macon Blast

The GEORGIA OUTDOOR NEWS bash AKA THE MACON BLAST held this past weekend at the Centreplex was a first-rate affair.

I spent all day Sunday working a table on behalf of GEORGIA CARRY dot ORG and had plenty of time to observe the fine, family friendly atmosphere of the GON affair.

There is always much to see and much to do for anyone with the slightest interest in outdoor sports. If your kid is a game playing, overweight, couch potato, he or she probably wouldn’t appreciate the emphasis on a healthier lifestyle. But, hey, Mom and Dad, you are the parents, the bosses of that kid and need to get him up and moving no matter how much he objects.

Most of the families I talked to were very much outdoor oriented. It is such a pleasure to meet folks, kids especially, who are enthusiastic about activities like shooting, hunting, fishing, and hiking. These are what I call ‘salt of the earth types’, good people with a strong sense of right and wrong, people imbued with genuine family values, not the values bragged about by cynical, aspiring politicians of all party stripes.

It was a great show and a great day for a Senior Citizen always looking for the real America, the America that lies beneath the myth and the hype and the propaganda.

The America he grew up in is not entirely dead. Not yet, anyway.