05/26/2020
Ed Ingold's Retirement
To the Friends and Followers of PA Magazine –
As I am approaching my 85th birthday in June, I feel that it is time to pass the wand onto the next generation. It has been many years of meeting and corresponding with a great group of people with very interesting stories and adventures. Even though I have not met many of our readers and authors personally, I feel like over the years that they became part of the Primitive Archer adventure. I had the opportunity for my wife and I to meet Butch Stone’s wife and ninety four year old mother in law. It was a surprise to find that she lived only a few miles from me. Along with Pappy and his wife Joanie I met quite a few members of the Primitive Archer Family and have enjoyed the many stories that have come my way. I have been the editor of the magazine for a long time now and it’s time for some new blood to take over. I look forward to all your contributions to the magazine and being able to read and enjoy it from an entirely different perspective. Thanks to all of you as we continue with the great stories yet to come.
Ed Ingold
I first met Ed about 45 years ago at the Crescent H Fly Fishing Lodge in Jackson, Wyoming, where he and his wife, Judy, worked. Ed, was head of the fly fishing operation and Judy made the rest of the operations work. Over the years, we became very close friends, chasing trout in beautiful Wyoming rivers and lakes and wild turkeys in South Texas along with Fred Staehr. Sometimes we would just sit on a bluff in our folding chairs in a far-away place near the Wind River Mountain Range and the little town of Daniel, Wyoming, and watch antelope hunters, on an opposite mountain side, go about their hunting or fish the Spring Creeks that fed Fish Creek along the Crescent H waters..
We hung out with a group of close hunting friends called “The Gezzers”. Ed, still retains the esteemed honorary title of “Ancient Senior Senile Gezzer” or “A.S.S. Gezzer”! We shared a lot of campfires together. They were good years and great memories.
Ed was involved in Primitive Archer in some way from the very start. He even gave us our official corporate name “Bigger Than That Productions, LLC. Soon he took on the job of painting our magazine covers. Ed is an award winning wildlife artist and his cover paintings are fabulous! He then moved to Editor where he has worked on behalf of all our readers for oh these many years. What a treasure. I am very blessed to have such a friend as Ed Ingold.
Thank you Gezzer for everything!
Monroe M. Luther
Publisher