Education of a Snake Hunter – Chapter Four

Memory conspires against nature.  The forgetting can begin in the instant that a change takes place…             –  J.B. MacKinnon It was now the 1980’s.  Educators were giving us a more sober, and more realistic message.  Towards the end of high school we were told we would be the first generation that, on average, would

Education of a Snake Hunter – Chapter Two

Pilot blacksnake “Does overwhelming change, the annihilation of all you know, create an intensity of memory that would not have existed otherwise?” – Charles Frazier Surely the Creelman’s, inhabitants of the old homestead on the plateau were thoroughly acquainted with the holy grail of his later teens and early twenties.  This being the great pilot

Education of a Snake Hunter – Chapter One

Eastern garter snake. Frontenac County, Ontario. There are three things which are too wonderful for me, four which I do not understand: The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man