Bert’s

 Illumination in the Flatwoods

A season with the wild turkey

by Joe Hutto

There is a book I highly recommend written by Joe Hutto and his experiment in imprinting two dozen wild turkey and living with them. The place where this took place was on the property surrounding Bert Roddenberry's old Florida home place in the Apalachicola National Forest out from Sopchoppy. The man in the overalls and boots is Brother Robertus or Bert, 1890-1981. The man in the dapper city clothes was Lawrence George, a gospel singer, in Sopchoppy for a revival as the song leader for my father, the late Rev Luther Stokes at the United Methodist Church in Sopchoppy.