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Date 12 décembre 1895
Comté Charlotte
Lieu Saint Andrews
Journal St. Andrews Beacon
Le langage employé dans les textes est tel qu’il a été transcrit par Daniel F. Johnson à partir des entrées dans les journaux originaux.
The Maine Press tels the following story of a man who has a brother and other relatives living in St. John. Uncle John CUSACK, the hermit of Moose Island, has just sold part of his insular domain in Moosehead Lake, and to this extent has abdicated the long seclusion in which he has dwelt for thirty years. He retains 200 acres upon which his home and stable stand. Four hundred acres he has sold to a wealthy woman, said to be a Southerner, for about $4,000, who will build there her summer residence. It was near the close of the civil war that John CUSACK, now a hale and hearty man of 65 years came from Reedfield, Me. and pitched his camp upon Moose Island, which subsequently he bought. (see original 'The Hermit of Moose Island')