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in pursuit of art education 1n Franee,Germany and Ital7, that.., mind was ever negative about.._111 boleland,and the more I saw of &.ny'thing else the more strq}l7 I felt I wanted to come home to Kaine and paint my- own iacomparable countr7 again. And the tf'ruth is,tbat the ver, first pic,tures I ever exh1b1ed in New York,shown as tar back as nineteen eleven,ware pictures of Kaineiitaken over on the west border 1n center iiovell arid North Love where I lived and painted over a space of ten 7ears,1n long summers,and once a whole winter through1 and got my first recognition in art from pictures of Kaine scenes as felt by a Maine son,a,nd outside ot Winslow Homer who was not a • aine born aan,I suppose I am the first one to be allowed to take credit for showing Kaine scenes to the outer world,and outside of my friend Waldo Pierfe,who does not gi,- taa same attention that I have dlJlle and am now doing entirel7,I know of no one who gives the subject the same attention ,that is-to do what I like to think I ma7 call State portraitUl'fand I was verr please• that at both of my last two exhibitions in New York, Waldo came and left me &;note at the first one fSayinf fI am on a::r wa1 to bine, but I don't see wl'q' I have to do ,1 t is all here " and last 7ear ha left me a note sa7ing,•llir• power to 10• tor giving birth to llaine•,b oth of which notes I h:1ghl1 prized as Waldo is a Maine man and feels the native emotioa,naturall7.

It is inspiring to be proud ot one~s native countr7,and for man man111ears when coming north,I never felt local emotions until I got to Kitterr and then when South Beriwxek V8119 I began to think at once ot tha, t lovely person and gitted. aulhor, Sara Or~ Jewett who has so grac1ed the record of the State ot Kaine with her beautif)&l stDries of it. J.tfaine is I alwa1s think, something else than just .IJBeric8' it is tor us who 119re born here, America localized,and it suppose this idea has the same etfect on anyone who is born elsewhere when he enters his own birth localit7 • .A'nd so it is a matter ot great pride to me to fulfill the..,. reque,t or tbe State Librarr ot Maine b7 giving it the souvenir mater,al it asks for. 11 tathar was an englisbman who came over here in the earl7 ,..., eighteen sixties,and headed tor Lewiston where there was alreaay· some sort ot an englifh coloDJ ot cotton workers from the Lancashire tngland countr7,and liking it,he sent tors:, mother who came over in al sailing vessel taking six weeks tor the journe1--the7 married at once and settled down and.., tather immediately became a citizen of Lewiston and reaained so tor sixty five years,until his death in nineteen fifteen. I have now onl1 neic es,nephews and cousins who survive and are residents ot Lewiston~ Auburn,and the most conspicuous~ of these was the late Charles# Horbur7 whom iq father brought over as a bo7,and by some strange means unknown to• now,

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