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Bill Arp recalls Old Hock and a Virginia reunion
In a crafted reminiscence Bill Arp celebrates an Englishborn Georgia veteran known as Old Hock, famed for feeding troops and reciting poetry. He recounts the veteran’s wartime furlough tale, a shipboard escape, and shared memories from Dawson and Allatoona. The piece also includes Arp’s warm appeal to readers, urging books by Burns, Moore, Scott, Dickens, and local Georgia authors for hopeful young readers.
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Em Moore
Tlow
Burns
John Hockenhull
Georgia
Old Hock
Hock
Tom Moore
Hood
Cramnpbell
Anne Crawford
Kathleen Mavourneen
Evin
Ilerin
London
America
Ant
Manassas
Forties
Western and
Old Stock
Farmville
Ile
Legislature
Old
Virginia
Shakespeare
Macaulay
Goldsmith
Pope
Gray
Warren
Wakefield
Hawthorne
Longfellow
Bryant
Buy S Halleck
Marco Bozaris
Miss Rutherford
Athens
Lucy Cobb Institute
Jean Ingelow
Gallileo
Mozart
Handel
Raphael
Beethoven
Audubon
Linnaeus
Bill Arp
Atlanta Constitution