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Eventually, the store was established enough to leave in the capable hands of his trusted employees, and Kilgore was able to occasionally eke out some time to go hunting. He had been an avid quail hunter in his younger years, and he was on the hunt for deer, elk and antelope on a trip out west when he decided to buy his first camera. After bagging a large deer PHOTO COURTESY GORDON KILGORE in a valley at daybreak, KilgoGordon Kilgore photographs grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) digging for clams in the National Park at the Silver Salmon re – then in his 30s – realized Creek Lodge in Alaska. he was going to have to carry the deer up thousands of feet to his camp on the ridgeline. taught photographer. n the National Geo- countries he has visited. had already built several suc- He said he was sitting by the In fact, that’s how he’s fund- cessful businesses. Walls are lined with memgraphic World Map campfire that night, exhaustthat hangs in his orabilia from his adventures – ed most of his travels. And In 1963, Kilgore and his ed, when he decided to put Sharpsburg home, art, African masks and beau- those didn’t begin in earnest wife, Margaret – to whom he Gordon Kilgore has marked tifully framed photographs until the entrepreneur was an has been married for 60 years with a pin each of the 169 taken by the 82-year-old, self- established family man who – opened a men’s shoe and KILGORE . 7
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clothing store in Fairburn. Free time was at a premium for the first decade or so as they worked and saved and built their client base. “Vacations were something that only others enjoyed,” Kilgore said.
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Gordon Kilgore’s journey into globe-tro ing photography