Come Autumn, Memoirs of a Hunter

About the Book

Come Autumn involves the growth of a land ethic that evolved in a Midwestern hunter’s mind between youth and old age. The book is a compelling series of hunting memoirs during, primarily, the last half of the Twentieth Century. It is fraught with numerous anecdotes and human interest stories. These anecdotes and stories are merely representative of many small town boys who grew to manhood during this era – boys who looked down barrels and through cross-hairs while they combed natural surroundings with family members and other friends.

About the Author

Don graduated from a central Wisconsin High School in 1955. In 1959 he graduated from the University of Wisconsin campus which was the first college in America to offer a four-year degree in conservation. Don then taught conservation in a factory suburb of Detroit and at the University of Michigan, next became Associate Curator at the Milwaukee Public Museum. As Director of the National Audubon Society, he built the prototype Schlitz Audubon Nature Center on Lake Michigan, then spent fifteen years in midwestern public school administration.