Not long before my son was born in Feb. of 1983, I boxed up all my Gene Hill books and mailed them to him along with a quart of Va Gentleman bourbon,some Peychard bitters and a long letter. ( There were nine of them, some purchasedi in the early 70's) He returned them along with a hand written letter. They all had personal inscriptions such as " To TM, the greatest shot in the Confredacy". They reside on my " special" book shelf along with my other personally inscribed books. I communicated several times with his widow who was working with a friiend in Selma who had country sport books at the time. She promised me one of his pipes but I never pursed it,much to my regret.
