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Originally Posted by CraigThompson
Once when chatting GBE on the phone he was asking where geographically Orange was in Virginia . Then he related during WWII I think he said he was stationed somewhere in VA anyway he would come to a place called Syria VA and fly fish for brookies . Syria is maybe 20 miles from my home and of course I know all the places up there he spoke of . Syria is maybe four miles the way the crow flies from the Shenandoah National Park .
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he did serve as an illustrator for the navy stationed in the DC area
I believe he mentioned visiting an estate in VA in one of his books
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"If there is a heaven it must have thinning aspen gold, and flighting woodcock, and a bird dog" GBE
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