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ποΈ 27 April 2023
β±οΈ 75 minutes
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0:00.0 | You |
0:22.7 | They claim their own eyes could just seek lead to the slain difference |
0:27.3 | Oh |
0:54.0 | Welcome to Strange Familiers |
0:56.1 | How are you doing tonight Allison? I'm okay |
0:59.2 | Good to know we were all wondering |
1:02.2 | Before we get going I want to thank Derek R. He sent me this book |
1:06.8 | logging in the Pennsylvania north woods a pictorial presentation of the period when pens woods was our nation's leading lumbering state |
1:15.2 | He didn't just send it to me because it's Pennsylvania |
1:18.4 | It's got a story about a hermit named the wild boy in it. You mean to read it? Sure a little hermit's story to start |
1:26.0 | This is surrender unrelated |
1:28.0 | No, okay |
1:30.0 | The wild boy the stream called the wild boy was actually named after an unusual young settler who built a crude hut on the east fork in potter county in 1842 |
1:40.0 | Do you know potter county else? That's God's country. I think as far as the Pennsylvania lore goes is it not |
1:46.8 | Living a solitary life six miles from the nearest neighbor the hermit avoided other humans who soon came to refer to him as the wild boy |
1:55.8 | And it was years before anyone knew his actual given name |
2:00.2 | According to W. W. Thompson found her of the potter enterprise in 1874 |
2:05.2 | The wild boy's real name was Lewis Stevens and he was born in 1825 at Tom's River, New Jersey |
2:11.7 | As a young boy Stevens was unable to bear the life at home with his drunken father and a stepmother of similar habits |
2:18.1 | Leaving home at age 11 the youngster tramp the countryside |
2:21.7 | And along the way he learned the rudiments of tin smithing and became an itinerant tinker |
2:27.2 | At age 17 when wandering up the cinema honing do you know the cinema honing |
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