Needing a place to hang my Stetson and slicker I had found and old leather wrapped coat hook and mounted it next to the wall phone near the bar.
The old wall phone does indeed work.
Above the phone is a small collection of dry flies from the spring of 1922 on the Esopus River in Upstate New York.
I had picked up the phone years ago at an auction with a winning bid of about $10. A little research and a bit of rewiring the hand piece and the phone was back in action. The hat and coat are simply my rain gear.
I had been tying flies for fishing and trading them with an old angler up near Roscoe NY. I had met him midstream. He had been fishing quite a bit upstream from me working his way down when he stepped in a hole, lost his footing and went up to his neck in the cold water. His waders were full and he couldn’t get footing to get up and was laughing so hard he just didn’t have the strength.
