The Model 12 Winchester as a Way of Life by John Hewitt. Fairbanks, Hopper Creek Press, 2013. First Edition, Hardbound, 9.25 inches tall, 336 pages. Includes a few black and white photo illustrations. John Hewitt, a resident of Fairbanks;, Alaska, majored in English in college, on his way to a commission in the Marine Corps. Injured in the Vietnam War, he received a medical retirement and went to graduate school, preparing to teach high school English. Unfortunately, school started at the same time as duck season. Hewitt contended, "I am a duck hunter. Everything else I just fake." Hewitt wrote for Gray's Sporting Journal for over thirty years. He has attempted to put some of those stories into his life's story, starting with this book, which chronicles his life to the age of twenty-five, from 1945 to 1970.
The Model 12 Winchester as a Way of Life by John Hewitt. Fairbanks, Hopper Creek Press, 2013. First Edition, Hardbound, 9.25 inches tall, 336 pages. Includes a few black and white photo illustrations. John Hewitt, a resident of Fairbanks;, Alaska, majored in English in college, on his way to a commission in the Marine Corps. Injured in the Vietnam War, he received a medical retirement and went to graduate school, preparing to teach high school English. Unfortunately, school started at the same time as duck season. Hewitt contended, "I am a duck hunter. Everything else I just fake." Hewitt wrote for Gray's Sporting Journal for over thirty years. He has attempted to put some of those stories into his life's story, starting with this book, which chronicles his life to the age of twenty-five, from 1945 to 1970.