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...Fisherman-Naturalist Knight, 56, a retired banker, lives in central Pennsylvania, and he knows a lot about fishing even in places he has never fished. When not busy casting in his favorite trout stream (which he calls "the River X" to keep the crowds away), Knight writes books on wild life and prepares what he calls "solunar tables." By last week the Des Moines Register & Tribune Syndicate had sold Knight's tables and his columns to almost 100 newspapers, making them the most widely read fish talk since Izaak Walton, and much more practical...
...Life. Peggy's year-round citizens make their living from the sea, fishing for lobsters, herring, mackerel, salmon. Each fisherman owns his own home, his boat and fishing gear and most of them have a cow and an ox in the barn, a pig in the shed, a small garden behind the house. Among the rocks back of the Cove are a few grassy plots where cattle and oxen feed and small hay crops are raised. Hay is cut with a scythe, raked by women & children, hauled to the barn by oxen which move at about the same gait...
...citizens dance to music from violins played by Fishermen Rupert Manuel and Vaughan Boutilier, an accordion played by Bus Driver Jordan Cook and a guitar played by Mrs. Cecil Caves. On Sundays, Peggy's citizens attend St. John's (Anglican) Church, where 83-year-old Fisherman Albert Crooks, known as the "mayor" of the community, pumps the organ. Each night, at dusk, Fisherman Manuel walks over the rocks to light the oil lamp in Peggy's lighthouse...
...There are only two occasions," observed Herbert Hoover, "when the American people respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing so some Presidents have gone fishing." In a radio round-table discussion of The Compleat Angler, Fisherman Hoover reminisced about Fisherman Calvin Coolidge: "He was a good deal of a fundamentalist in economics, government, and fishing, so he naturally preferred angleworms. But . . . he took to artificial flies. However, his backcast was so much a common danger that even the secret service men kept at a distance until they were summoned to climb trees to retrieve his flies...
Still a passionate fisherman, he has worked out a schedule of visits which enables him to follow the trout season from California through Oregon and Canada. In winter, he fishes in Florida. His role in politics is that of an elder statesman. Said an associate: "Of course, he talks with politicians from time to time, but just because they are old friends...