First the black lab shows up at the door, then the gunsmith, who escorts me through the utilitarian building into a workshop where the president of shotgun maker Caesar Guerini, Wes Lang, has a file in hand working on a customer's barrel.

If you're into fried seafood, hand-carved decoys and the pleasures of small-town life then the 38^th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland was the place to spend a leisurely autumn afternoon.