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Here’s another tidbit I wrote in the journal several years back to help introduce an article about Van Dyke:

One of the few old fishing books I have in my personal library is a copy of Henry Van Dyke’s Fisherman’s Luck—a 1911edition of the 1899 book. It is a copy that my grandmother gave to my grandfather on his birthday in 1920—it’s inscribed from her to him. I never had opportunity to meet Helen and David, so you can imagine how special a Christmas gift this was for me to receive from my non–fly-fishing father several years ago.

And, as many of you likely know, it’s a good book.