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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock N»w« Staff Writer
Rayner Snead’s Hollow Boy: Remembrance of Life in the Gid, Brown Hollow is selling well at the Rappahannock News and Cabin Fever Books. /
This small volume is crammed full of tales of Rappahannock in the 20s and 30s.
Retired Judge Snead said he began writing about his family and youth when he took a course in creative writing taught by Evelyn Minshull at an Elderhostel in Cook Forest, Pennsylvania. He said this was his third time at an Elderhostel where programs are offered for people over 55 on college campuses, and the first time he tried one that concentrated on writing.
It covered such topics as overcoming writer’s block and developing character, he said. It was an “intense seminar” that lasted for a week from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day.
Afterwards he showed his writings to his daughter Dana, who encouraged him to keep at it. “Over the next year I went on and did a first draft,” he said, but he found that was just the start. *' He said he got involved in writing his history to share the family Ctories with his children and grandchildren, but many others wanted to r£ad his writings also, and so after inany revisions he decided to go ahead and have it published. (Warick House Publishing in Lynchburg was selected. The print
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