Talk:Euell Gibbons

Vfd
On 19 Mar 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Votes for deletion/Yule Gibbons for a record of the discussion. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 01:31, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

Heart attack?

 * most likely brought on as a result of smoking cigarettes, the saturated fats he added to his wild food diet, and a lack of exercise in his later, declining years.

This strikes me as speculative, and generally nasty. The priggish belief that old age is caused by not living right is a pet peeve of mine. Does this belong? Smerdis of Tlön 19:42, 2 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, it does help to explain why a man with an otherwise healthy lifestyle died at a relatively young age of a malady usually associated with poor living habits. Frankg 02:17, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

The quote was nine parts are edibile, not many parts.

Information about Euell's demise is accurate
I am the author of the original content from which most of the Gibbons page was based. Originally published in the copyrighted article: Kallas, John. Euell Gibbons - The Father of Modern Wild Foods, Wild Food Adventurer, Vol 3 No 4, 1998. And posted at this web site with permission, which is also copyrighted: http://www.wildfoodadventures.com/euellgibbons.html The heart attack and its contributing factors were supported by discussions between myself, a Ph.D. in Nutrition, and John Gibbons, Euell's grandson. John Gibbons was pleased with the article and felt it accurately told his Grandfather's story. The sentence, which indeed seems harsh in this brief article, is put into context in the original work.

I considered removing the potential causes in the Wikipedia entry and just leaving the heart attack part. I may still do that.

John Kallas

Euell Gibbons a sailor?
The Wikipedia article on the proa (an asymmetrical twin-hull sailboat) mentions an Euell Gibbons who designed a successful rigging for the same. Is the pinetree EG and the sailboat EG one and the same? Cumbre 05:09, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Education
The current text says, following mention of his Susquehanna Univ. honorary doctorate, that he only had a 6th grade education. However, the Texas State Historical Society biography indicates that he completed high school after WWII, and " attended the University of Hawaii from 1947 to 1950." I have deleted the part of the sentence about sixth-grade-education. Perhaps a more active Gibbons editor can enter more definitve informtion on his education. Phytism (talk) 22:07, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

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Educator
Mr. Gibbons taught a course to children offered at Calloway Gardens during the summer circa 1976. He covered how to eat parts of a cattail and how to identify, test, and eat other plants found in the Florida woods of Calloway Gardens. 159.118.216.220 (talk) 23:50, 24 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Wouldn't "the summer circa 1976" be about six months after he died?  __173.235.8.93 (talk) 03:58, 14 June 2023 (UTC)