Neighbors of Yesterday

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Adirondack farmers and lumbermen were a shrewd, kindly, simple people, bound together bya characteristic clannishness that gave them the feeling that they were a race apart from the dwell ers in towns. They had little subtlety and they were not progressive. Life moved in a rut for them; they were content with what they knew and what they had, and resented the intrusion of nov clty and change.