Life and history of Evans Patterson Cook, ca. 1974.

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Life and history of Evans Patterson Cook, ca. 1974.

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Cook writes about his ancestry, his childhood in Augusta County, Va., and Harrisonburg, Va., pitching for the Shenandoah Shop's baseball team, the depression and sharecropping in the 1930s and 1940s, the South River flood of 1941, maintenance supervisor work for Wilson Memorial High School, Augusta County, his sons' lives, his two bouts with mental illness, his retirement in Staunton, and his assessment of his life.

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University of Virginia. Library

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