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Updated: May 1, 2025

The narrowness of the man that saw so much where there was so little in his own experience and in the trivial events of his own township was what I now recognise as most valuable to the purpose of this history. It was a narrowness that covered a multitude of people in St Lawrence county in those days. Jed Feary was greeted with applause and then by respectful silence when he rose to speak.

Irving Bacheller - Eben Holden, a tale of the north country

And the evening before we came back to town Jed Feary was with us and Uncle Eb played his flute and sang the songs that had been the delight of our childhood. The old poet read these lines written in memory of old times in Faraway and of Hope's girlhood.

Irving Bacheller - Eben Holden, a tale of the north country