Lord God Birds
Personal memory by steve gunter
1968 • Hope, Arkansas
My father, the lumberjack, took me with him back in the late 1960's to cut pine trees for saw log sale to the timber mills of southern Arkansas. I will never forget the day we saw two huge birds fly from the canopy above us. "What were those birds, Dad". He answered, "the local people here call them the LORD TO GOD birds". I saw them myself that very day...
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