Originally posted by SwampHunter:
Big Jack, the turkey in that William Harris picture was carrying a sign that said "plant a tree for me." He wasn't keen on all the trees being cut, but as time has shown the turkeys like the pines too. I find them in our pines much more so than the hardwoods. Certainly diversity is the key.
I don't think there's any decline in the turkey population.
William, I believe that was added later. I don't recall seeing that on the picture at the time he put it up. I stopped in almost every afternoon around 1970 and watched him paint and as you know, looked at the artifacs he had recovered from the river, that he liked to show everyone. I went by one time when I had some hunting clients at Hendersons and bought a reproduction of the picture I had watched him paint some 20 or so years earlier. He framed it in a frame made from pecky cypres he had recovered from the river. It hangs over my fireplace in the den here in Pell City.
And BTW, Troy, the guy who has the little "U-pick" farm and farmers supply, on the sight that Williams house was, is his grandson, Park.
