From The Editor
CURRENT From The Editor
This magazine has been blessed, since it earliest issues in the late 1980s, with a bounty of talented, dedicated and insightful columnists.
We’d like to celebrate dogs having fun in the snow in our November/December issue, and hope you might like to contribute.
Narrow, 12-mile Tinker Creek, in Roanoke, Virginia, has gained fame far beyond its size for several notable reasons.
This magazine has lost a dear and treasured friend. The world has lost much more than that.
plus watching those on the way to stardom
This magazine has been blessed, since it earliest issues in the late 1980s, with a bounty of talented, dedicated and insightful columnists.
We’d like to celebrate dogs having fun in the snow in our November/December issue, and hope you might like to contribute.
Narrow, 12-mile Tinker Creek, in Roanoke, Virginia, has gained fame far beyond its size for several notable reasons.
This magazine has lost a dear and treasured friend. The world has lost much more than that.
plus watching those on the way to stardom
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