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"Giant Hermit of the Back Woods" some folks called old Bill Smith. In days gone by, New York's Adirondack Mountains were home to many 'wild-looking characters', but few compared to Bill Smith! He was 6'4" tall and his grizzled beard trailed on the ground when he didn't have it tied up. His life story reads like a tall tale, but this mountain man was the real deal! This is the true story of the 'Bearded Wonder of the Adirondacks'!

Daisy grew up beneath the western gaze of Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks, in the small hamlet of Bloomingdale, at the turn of the 20th century. She experienced great love and great loss over her 57 years of life. Daisy became a trusted midwife by 1920, worked in a bean cannery during the Great Depression, and supported the boys overseas during World War II by becoming a drill press operator at an airplane factory. But none of that adequately describes her life, her loves, her triumphs, or her heartaches over five decades. Perhaps a week spent with her in anticipation of a daughter's wedding, along with a lifetime of flashbacks, and a journey alongside her in her fi ...