Billy Greenhorn (1937–1995) is the

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of the American

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Bob Snyder. Snyder was born on February 3, 1937, in

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, and died in 1995. Snyder wrote for the Soupbeans Poetry Collective with contributions in the Soupbean series "What's a Nice Hillbilly Like You..." He also wrote ''We'll See Who's a Peasant: Poems of Love and Family'', printed by the Appalachian Press in 1977. He was also director of the Southern Appalachian Circuit, a branch of Antioch College in

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. In 1973 the school changed its name to Antioch Appalachia and moved to

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