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Lois O'Connor was a feature writer for the Ithaca Journal, well known for her Crossroads Comments. In this article, published on August 30, 1956, she describes her visits with several Caroline families: Malcolm and Jean Sloan, Bessie Barnes, Meredith and Hazel Brill, and Florence Henry.

Crossroads Comment By Lois O'Connor

Sea Captain Drops Anchor at Farm in Caroline

“I can’t imagine a farm in New York. It sounds as silly as a cow in a skyscraper.”

So a friend in Dublin, Ireland, wrote to Mrs. Malcolm Sloan when she heard that the Sloans had purchased a farm in Upstate New York. “Over there, they can’t imagine what New York State is like outside of New York City, Mrs. Sloan told me when I visited her at Anchor Farm on the Midline Rd. out of Slaterville.

“In all the books, no one ever tells how wonderful Upstate New York is,” said Mrs. Jane Tayler, Mrs. Sloan’s mother, who is visiting here from Donaghadee, County Down, Ireland.

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The following full history of the Town of Caroline, from the pen of a valued correspondent, we gladly transfer to our columns.¹.

The town of Caroline occupies the southeast corner of the county of Tompkins, and alphabetically heads the list of its nine towns. It is bounded on the north by Dryden, (originally township No. 23 of the Military Tract), east and south by Richford, Berkshire, and Candor in Tioga county, and west by Danby. The general surface is hilly and upland, broken into long, gentle ridges of arable land admitting of cultivation from the valleys to the hill-tops, which frequently attain an altitude four or five hundred feet.

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