Charlie McKown telling a tall tale
By Bob Weaver
Saturday night was the annual Bear Fork "Critter Dinner" at the Arnoldsburg Community Building.
Perhaps the biggest treat is Charlie McKown taking the stage to tell some wild and crazy hunting and critter tales.
Bear Fork Hunting Club has sponsored the wild meat banquet for several years, which generally brings out hundreds of folks, members of the club and their guests.
The meat menu, besides the usual country cookin' fare, often includes everything from bear and buffalo to groundhog and rattlesnake. Of course, lots of deer meat.
Area musical groups performed for the audience.
The club currently leases about 13,500 acres of the deep and dark woods, one of the most remote areas in the region.
LEFT: oldtimers Paul Evans (left) and Norville McCune (right) enjoy dinner and swap tales; RIGHT: Famous Calhoun hunter Roy Pursley displays his trophy winner 11-point buck, killed on Munday Rd. in 1977
The Bear Fork Hunting Club is a throw-back to the original club which went to the remote backwoods area before 1900 to camp and hunt, often spending several weeks a year.
Many of Calhoun's early citizens were involved in that venture, setting up tents, cook shacks, a country store - even a barbershop.
LEFT: A few specimens of wildlife; RIGHT
Mother and child enjoy a little taste of critter
- Read TALES OF BEAR FORK on the Herald under PEOPLE, HUMOR AND HISTORY
- Read earlier Critter Dinner stories by using the keyword CRITTER on SEARCH
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