Hi everyone
I was reading the thread titled bushcraft or old fashioned camping and a name popped up from my childhood
When i was around 14 or 15 years old there was a program on tv called brendans chase some of the older people on here will remember it , it was about two young lads who ran off to the woods to live of the land anyway they met a old man called Smokey joe who lived in the woods is this the same guy as british red mentioned or did they take his name beacuse he was a famous woodsman , whats the story regarding smokey joe i would love to find out more about this man and did he have any connection with the tv program
I was reading the thread titled bushcraft or old fashioned camping and a name popped up from my childhood
When i was around 14 or 15 years old there was a program on tv called brendans chase some of the older people on here will remember it , it was about two young lads who ran off to the woods to live of the land anyway they met a old man called Smokey joe who lived in the woods is this the same guy as british red mentioned or did they take his name beacuse he was a famous woodsman , whats the story regarding smokey joe i would love to find out more about this man and did he have any connection with the tv program
). He was a little.....unconventional shall we say but no danger to anyone. I hesitate to call him a tramp as that has overtones that imply a drunk (which he wasn't - although he liked a drop), drug addict (he wouldn't have even understood what drugs were), beggar (he deliberately distanced himself from urban living). He was perhaps the precursor of the traveller. He knew a lot about survivivg on little or no income. He lived in a tent but cooked on a fire and was not above "liberating" the odd bunny, pheasant or trout. I don't look at him through rose coloured glasses, he was a guy who decided the 20th century didn't suit him. He lived simply and not poorly. He looked older than he was and died younger than he might have done. To my knowledge he lived without 4 walls for 15 years although I suspect quite a bit longer. He was nice, unthreatening and a bit odd at times. He really loved Kentucky spare ribs. I liked him a lot and miss him at strange times
