Younger Years of Terry’s Life

Terry grew up in Northcentral Pennsylvania amidst farm country and the rolling hills where he spent the most of his time in the outdoors: helping farmers bring in the hay; wandering the creeks, valleys, and hills; fishing in the creeks and ponds; hunting for rabbits, grouse, pheasant, and deer with a rifle, shotgun, handgun, and a bow and arrow; trapping for muskrat and mink and preparing the pelts; building shelters from what was around and sleeping out under the stars with what he would bring on his back.

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Terry’s got married, had a family (6 children and 13 grandchildren), learned to play many musical instruments (fiddle, mandolin, harmonica, guitar, Native American flute), formed a performing mountain music band, became a fifth-degree blackbelt, and built a 2,000 sq ft martial arts school for “Campbell’s School of Tae-Kwon-Do and Self-Defense” training (also practiced Karate, Judo, and Jujitsu); he trained thousands of men, women, and youth as well as many to the level of blackbelt.

 

Terry also continued to hunt and his passion for fishing grew as he would often fish for Largemouth Bass and Northern Pike as well as hunt in the mountains of Vermont where he used all the skills that he had amassed over life to enjoy nature.

 

Older Years of Terry’s Life

Terry began seeing the condition of the world and of the United States and the direction things were going, so he began to revisit his youth and wanted to prepare for a life at the basic level of surviving and growing stronger from that foundation; thus, for years now, he has been working on regaining his focus and strength of purpose to be all that he can be each day, share what he can with those he can in every way possible, and enjoy the life that he finds before him.

 

Bushcraft is a term Terry had not heard before this stage of his life, and he has found that it re-enforces solid skills that mankind should come to learn, things of which major parts of the world still use daily to even have a life at all; global, tribal communities also have many other skills to survive in their environments. Terry found that many Americans have gotten “soft” over the decades with great wealth at their fingertips, forgetting the essentials of existing, living, surviving, and adapting without such wealth and the conveniences it offers.

 

At this stage in Terry’s life, he hopes to help others perhaps think about, “Could you survive and adapt if modern conveniences became lost to you for some reason?” Interesting questions is it not...