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Tom Van Every reads from Homer's biography (10)
2004
Doon, Ontario

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"When young Homer's keen eye flashed over the forest land, in the village of the seven dams, many were the stories that went around about Homer. Sitting in the house and painting nothin' but the backsides of cows, while people worked. But Home did not sit, he stood in that little room in the attic before his large pictures, and walked back and forth until, Phoebe said, his hair was all worn off at the back, from rubbing against the rafters."