Gene Lyons column on Big Red
The Times-Reporter What got me remembering Big Red was an evocative photo in the Little Rock newspaper. Taken by staff photographer Steve Swofford, it depicted a black Lab doing what only a retriever would do on the coldest day of the winter: plunging into the Arkansas River to fetch a decoy. In bright sunlight, with Pinnacle Mountain in the background, you could even see the fanatical gleam in the dogs eyes. How we came to own Big Red was that Diane encountered him on her way to work. He was r...
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