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THE TOWN THAT LOST ITSELF

So I do not know whether they yet live secluded and unknown in Home Hollow, or whether they have braved a fringe of the world. But I do know that somewhere up there on the top edge of Essex County is a community that waited nearly half a century for Tiberius Smith to inform 'em that the Civil War is a closed incident.