• Rode Trailways bus home from Macon every day after school in 8th grade for 35 cents
• Hosted and accompanied for dinner reigning Miss America in 1970 (he was President of Circle K Club at Mercer, and the club sponsored Miss Mercer Pageant)
• Smoked cigar while trying a criminal jury trial in court
• Hiked five sections of Appalachian Trail
• Bought a trumpet in 1972 on an installment plan from Sears, paid $5 per month (taught himself to play; also taught himself to play piano)
• Played in a violin duet with his teacher, USSR defector from Ukraine, at First Baptist Church of Gray
• Thrown off tractor while mowing when tractor hit a stump and kept going
• Killed a deer with bush hook when a spiked buck ran into his path in the woods
• Has camped out 54 continuous annual weekends of deer season since 1969
