Sports

Matthew Dickerson: What I saw in the woods

THE COLUMNIST AND his uncle had a plan for flushing deer out of the underbrush during a recent hunt. As sometimes happens, a different kind of wildlife arrived at the deer stand — a mother bear and her two cubs. Photo by Matthew Dickerson

It was the third and final morning to hunt with my uncle Jerry during New Hampshire’s muzzleloader season. We were working the hardwood forests on and around his land, across the Connecticut River from (but still within sight of) Vermont’s Mount Ascutney).