Billy Greenhorn

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Billy Greenhorn, pseudonym for poet Bob Snyder. Snyder wrote for the Soupbeans Poetry Collective with contributions in the Soupbean series "What's a Nice Hillbilly Like You..." Bob also wrote "We'll See Who's a Peasant", printed by the Appalachian Press in 1977.

Bob was also director of the Southern Appalachian Circuit, a branch of Antioch College in Huntington, West Virginia. In 1973 the school changed it's name to Antioch Appalachia and moved to Beckley, WV which is in the mountains. Bob was born in St. Mary's, West Virginia and died in 1995.