Team Penning: Not just horsing around
April 11, 2002 — John Hulsey remembers riding his horse down Green Street. He’d clip-clop on over to the old Royal Theater, which used to occupy the vacant lot next to Clore’s Restaurant. He’d tie up his horse and take in a movie.
This was the 1960s — not too long ago, really. Back then, Gainesville [...]
Cuttin’: ‘He appears more comfortable on a horse than off’
August 17, 1999 — “You know how to use a rotary phone?” C.W. Tate asked me as we walked through the stable. Tate pushed the front of his cowboy hat back on his [...]
Bull Riding: ‘I am going to do this again’
January 19, 1999 — It was 3:30 last Monday morning when Cindy Cook decided she was going to ride a bull. And when Cindy Cook decides she is going to do something, Cindy Cook does it.
“I was [...]
Bull Riding: ‘All I remember was the beating of my heart’
December 8, 1998 — I think I know how Chris Chandler must feel in the morning.
Only my soreness on Monday didn’t come from some Colts from Indianapolis. It came from two bulls from Barrow County.
“How did you [...]