Gone To The Dogs with Phillip Herron
This episode is part of the White River National Wildlife Refuge series of interviews conducted on site during the 2021 annual coon hunt. In this episode Steve sits down with Nubbin Moore and their mutual friend Phillip Herron. Herron is best known as the do-everything, man-in-the-black-hat at the annual American Black and Tan Coonhound Association’s annual Black and Tan Days.
Herron served 22 years in the US Army and Arkansas National Guard. He is a breeder of world class Black and Tan Coonhounds and has served as the number one guy in the association’s outreach to youth for a number of years.
Herron was the subject of an article Steve wrote a few years ago called “A Cat With Nine Lives” outlining Herron’s many scrapes with death and serious injury in the military and while hunting. In this episode, Phillip and Steve at age 75 and Nubbin at age 80, discuss why they are still actively involved in coon hunting despite their ages.
Come on in to the hunting camp and sit a spell. The coon hunting conversation flows like the currents of the famous White River on whose banks it stands.