Hill's Essays Work Wonders ; Capture Essence of Outdoors

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One of my favorite writers is the late Gene Hill, whose outdoor columns - more like essays, really - ran for years in Sports Afield and Field & Stream magazines.

Hill, who lived in Pennington, had a marvelous gift for capturing the essence of our sports. His writing not only influenced my desire to do an outdoor column, but shaped a lot of the romantic notions I have about hunting and fishing and the people who engage in these pastimes.

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Hill's Essays Work Wonders ; Capture Essence of Outdoors

At this time of year, I always like to pull out one of the many collections of his work from the late 1960s and early 1970s called "A Hunter's Fireside Book." One of the essays is simply entitled "A ...

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