This Brock’s for Me

In the spring of 2007 I was able to learn everything I wanted to know about turkeys and deer. I learned how to track them, what to wear, and that deer are color blind. Those strange fan-type strokes in my sandy driv way are no longer a mystery either.

Just a few months later in August, about 20 turkey poults simply took a sand bath in my driveway and then settled down for their afternoon nap with adults foraging nearby. It was a thrill, as was the day a short while before when a deer birthed a fawn also on that same driveway.

{sidebar id=1}Then I learned from Jenny Brock that she was one of the instructors at a previous Becoming an Outdoor Woman course. The one I attended was on the shores of Lake Talquin . Jenny Brock, much to my surprise, had been in on all these secrets that I learned for years. And she’s an accomplished bow hunter.

I don’t hunt, but I must say that I have become a keen observer out here in the woods as well as in a college classroom.

As we met at county commission meetings during the past decade I had no clue about her keen involvement with Florida ’s wildlife. I knew she was a smart lady because she knows about math and I don’t. She retired from Leon High School and continued to come to county commission meetings.

And Jenny Brock volunteered her time making sure the rules of the wild were on the side of wildlife. She’s lobbied in Washington , she’s influenced policies that affect hunters. And she eats what she hunts.

Just as I learned that the tom makes those fan shaped marks in the sand, I also learned that Jenny Brock makes careful and informed decisions she personally researches.

Jenny has seen abuse in the years we have attended county commission meetings. Abuse of our own ordinances, abuse of civil rights and let’s not forget, abuse of power.

She relies on her ability to interpret what she researches, to weigh the pros and cons of issues, and the wisdom that comes with age. She is my kind of renaissance woman and my choice for county commissioner in November.

But please remember that her name is Jenny Brock. She’s the independent candidate who can follow her own scent.

Madeleine H. Carr
Crawfordville

This letter originally published on August 27, 2008.

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