Nash in many of his writings thought highly about one of the clubs old-timers. His name was Arthur Wheatley, better known as Guido. Nash was twenty-one when Guido passed from this life. In an introduction to Colonel Sheldons book entitled Tranquility, Nash inscribed these eloquent word: In my youth a very dear old gentleman (Guido) presented me a shooting dairy hand-penned through many decades. Child that I was, I sensed he put it in my hands that somehow its giving was linked mysteriously to tears that shone in his eyes. I asked, wonderingly, For me? And he whispered, "Yes, Boy, I give you back my years." Nash wrote years later in Guidos Beaver Dam journal: I would love to sit at that table again and toast, glass aloft: My kindest regards, gentlemen, and may God bless us all. He did. Minutes and years! A page is turned.
Nash died in 1971, and Beaver Dam had a very warm and tender spot in his heart. Here where so many of his stories were rooted, it is only fitting that the rebirth of Beaver Dam Ducking Club occurred and continues to the present time through Beaver Dam Hunting Services. Come and share the old-times and the old-timers!
Wayne Capooth, author of "The Golden Age Of Waterfowling"
