Last weekend was a celebration of the 70th anniversary of Dartmouth Rugby. Alumni of all generations gathered at the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse to cheer on the Dartmouth RFC in a decisive victory over Northeastern University. Yesterday was National Writing Day, according to the National Council of Teachers of English. So, in honor of Corey Ford's important part of collegiate rugby history, and to mark National Writing Day, I thought I would reprise this piece from a few years

If Pennsylvania is the bedrock of American fly fishing, that bedrock is folded and wrinkled like the fishing clothes stuffed into my luggage. Sandstone, shale and limestone create the landforms, and shape the watersheds and streambeds of the creeks (pronounced cricks) and runs (local vernacular for a faster stream) that hold brook trout, rainbows and some very sizable brown trout. Mud Run and Hickory Run My next stop was the Poconos, where my college friend (and co-author) Ed

The wooden screen door slammed as Guy strolled out to his car to fetch the book and slammed again a moment later as he came back into the cabin. He held up his copy of The Best of Corey Ford, waving it in the glow of the propane lights. The Boys of the Grant were sitting around the big table in Sam’s Cabin at the Dartmouth Grant in northern New Hampshire, sipping potent beverages after dinner, each waiting for someone else to get up to start the dishes. “It’s uncanny, I tell