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Designated the “Super Bowl of Rodeos,” the 66th annual National Finals Rodeo (NFR) crowns the world’s best cowboys and cowgirls of this horsemanship sport. With a total payout of more than $16 million in 2024, it’s deemed the world’s richest and most esteemed cowhand exhibition. The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) hosts and Wrangler title […]

December 5, 2024

National Finals Rodeo: inside Cowgirl Candace’s rooftop reunion to toast Vegas’ 10-day championship

All stun at first sight. Yet, their beauty is merely peripheral to their caring hearts and sincere smiles. They dress their versions of Deep South dinner tables with forthright life stories. Side dishes of humbleness, patience, and grace are evident with every moment served. Their kindness is a special kind of sweet tea. When these […]

November 13, 2024

5 adventurers, artists, agriculturalists redesigning Georgia

Her then-strawberry blonde bob saluted T-Boz from girl group TLC. When that black-on-black Ford Explorer pulled up in the grandparents’ dirt driveway, her neon windbreaker and doorknocker earrings sufficed as a rather loud hey y’all. Auntie Kathy arrived at Edward Hill Farm in Baldwin County, Georgia, in the 1990s to organize backyard parties. Those family […]

October 21, 2024

The cowgirl auntie who became a ’90s rural rage

We dashingly showed up. Ballpoint penned out. And country Western won for Milledgeville, Georgia. My brother, Edward Morrow, and I rounded up international awards at the Outdoor Writers Association of America’s (OWAA) 2024 conference held in El Paso, Texas, from Sept. 20 to Sept. 22. “I was like ‘Oh, wow,’” said Edward when the award […]

September 22, 2024

Georgia siblings, cowhands lasso two international awards