Last week Lisa wrote a blog entitled It’s not your typical day at Lemuria about our event with Melody Golding and the Panther Tract crew. Well, she was right, it wasn’t any kind of normal around here. The Panther Tract folks have been touring all over the state in the last week and if you haven’t heard of the book, here’s the deal: the books is full of photographs and stories of the tradition of boar hunting in Mississippi – it’s wild boar, hunting dogs, knives, guns, horses, but most of all the people who love the sport.
So, to get the idea of the book project across to those of us who are uninitiated Melody isn’t just doing signings, no, she’s bringing the boar hunting culture to each event. That’s right, a whole bunch of hunters showed up in their hunting garb with a mounted boar head, a video of the hunt, they decorated the store with prints from the book and bamboo, and they were all guzzling beer and telling tall tales and hunting stories. I think you get the idea. I’ll tell you what though, this book is a cool document of a part of southern culture, but it’s also documentary evidence of what all Mississippians believe – it’s all about the people. Thanks Melody.
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