Excerpt from Boyhood Reminiscences, 1855-1865

In offering these sketches, the writer warns those who read that their actual historical value may not be very great. These notes are simply the digging up of mental data stored up for many years and no responsibility will be taken for errors in dates, names and local events. Remember that the author was only a boy, with a rapidly developing sensitive brain, quick to take impressions and often no doubt taking them incorrectly. His radius of observation was also a small one, centering at the home and growing fainter and less obvious as the circle developed, so criticism is not invited. The truth shall be strictly adhered to and the pardon of any descendants of those who may be mentioned in a possibly humorous - never unkind way in these papers, is solicited in advance.

Let no one imagine who reads these random reminiscences that the author is seeking a place as a local historian, for it is not so, neither he nor his parents before him were born here and that fact is sufficient to bar him from that honorable role, and besides neither he nor his forbears ever attained distinction w01thy of note along the lines of wealth, culture or education, in fact were neither rich enough, or poor enough, good enough or bad enough, wise enough or simple enough to even rise above the simple plane of just average citizens.

Let my love for the town that nurtured me be my apology for these sketches and the blessed memories of a most happy boyhood atone for the many apparent trivial and juvenile incidents that will appear; remember that once they seemed vital and the passing years have only added to their vitality so I will give them to you just as I recall them.

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