it's greaaat

Rusty Ford was one of the people I could not find when I put together a WAVA tribute page five years ago. He was arguably the most creative of all the production directors during the station's top 40 days. I remember that he and I both came out of a screening of "True Stories" raving about how great the movie was. Not everyone at the station agreed with us.

Imagine my surprise when I got an email from Rusty. He recently found my WAVA page after doing a Google search for some of our former co-workers. His email address gave me a clue that he is somehow affiliated with Pine Magazine. According to their website, Rusty is a co-founder and publisher as well as marketing and advertising manager. A little more digging led me to his myspace page and to an online portrait.

I had never heard of Pine Magazine before today. In the time I spent looking at it, I found some great reading. I especially enjoyed an article about the Body Farm and one about the synchronous fireflies in the Smokies. In the archives I found an article called "Things I Learned on My Smoky Mountain Vacation." Those three articles alone should keep you busy for half an hour or so.