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The Hermit and the Woodchuck
What is not generally known about New England is how it’s early inhabitants experienced life and their struggle with cultural changes that took place in those early days of national development. For a number of reasons citizens would drop out of society, living apart from organized civilization. This story is about such a person whose wife wandered off with a lumberjack. His personal devastation was so great that he chose to give up on society and move to the forest to live as a hermit. To ease his loneliness he befriended a woodchuck, teaching it to read and write. They lived a domesticated lifestyle in a cabin deep in the forest south of the town of Derry along West Running Brook. As the town's culture changed, the hermit’s lifestyle became threatened, as well as the woodchuck’s.