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2/22/99

SLU CELEBRATES PROF'S BOOK ABOUT NORTH COUNTRY WOMAN

CANTON - The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries at 
St. Lawrence University invite the community to join in honoring 
Professor of English Susan E. Ward on the publication of her book 
Dear Home: The 1901 and 1902 Diary of Mabel Lila Wait.
	A reception will be held on Friday, February 26, at 4 p.m. in 
the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. Young Library; Ward will speak 
about the book and refreshments will be served.
	Dear Home, edited and with an introduction by Ward, records the 
struggles of a turn-of-the-century Canton woman who saved the family 
farm after the death of her parents. Wait ran the farm herself, over 
the protests of male relatives, until her eventual marriage. As well 
as recounting the story of a courageous woman, the book offers glimpses 
of both town and rural life in St. Lawrence County in the early 20th 
century.
	A member of the St. Lawrence faculty since 1975, Ward is a graduate 
of Carnegie-Mellon University, with a master's degree and Ph.D. from the 
University of Connecticut. She has studied a number of women's diaries 
from the 19th and early 20th centuries in Northern New York, and has given 
presentations on the topic to groups through the area.

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