Farrell Parker was born Sept. 8,1952, in Sylva, N.C. His parents were Elbert and Latrelle Merck Parker. He passed from this life to his next life Aug. 21, 2023, at
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Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be, as somebody once said. Yet it is sometimes pleasant to wallow in the past. Shooting Times was founded in 1882. It has been read by many generations of shooters and it is still going strong. My own relationship with Shooting Times started when I was at boarding school. I had discovered that at the school shop you could request newspapers or magazines and they would subsequently appear on the end-of-term bill under ‘sundries’. My reckoning was that my father was far too busy running an international business to bother reading the small print of an invoice. (Take out a subscription to Shooting Times here.) As it happens, I was mistaken. But he very kindly agreed to continue funding my nefarious habit. In retrospect, I think he was relieved that I was actually reading something. As it happens, what first attracted me to Shooting Times wasn’t shooting, but ferrets. They were on the front page of the edition in question, flagging a feature inside.