Don Feigert
Herald Outdoors Writer
MERCER COUNTY —
TRAILER PARK SAM we called him, as young teens without empathy or sense are prone to do, although he never lived in a park per se, just in a run-down old mobile home on five worthless rocky acres with three younger brothers, two older sisters, a mother who was always around and a father who wasn’t.
I was country back then myself. I caught suckers and catfish in the river down the hill and plucked green onions out of the family garden and ate them raw, dirt and all. I cleaned chicken crap out of the backyard coop and tended to our beagles and left the house every summer morning to wander the woodlands and countryside all day long, getting back just in time for dinner and a yard game of hide-and-seek with my two sisters Lukey and Peet and my brothers Earl and Foo.
