Poetic Obituaries: "I taught school to support him

to write, which was not considered a wise move by my family or his family," [Hugh Prather III's wife] Gayle said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "He wrote beautiful poetry, but poetry wasn't, even back then, very big. All the time he was keeping a diary."

From Austin, the Prathers moved to Berkeley, Calif., where Hugh wore long hair and a beard and began crafting his diary into a book, while Gayle worked in a bank.

from The Sante Fe New Mexican: Hugh Prather III, 1938-2010

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