A New Edition of an Old Favorite (10:29) Martha Foley talks with St. Lawrence University English professor Albert Glover about his new print edition of Irving Bacheller's Eben Holden.

Addison Irving Bacheller was born in Pierrepont, NY in 1859. He attended St. Lawrence University, receiving his B.S. in 1882. Bacheller moved to New York City to join the staff of the Brooklyn Daily Times. In 1884, Bacheller founded the first U.S. newspaper syndicate, the Bacheller Syndicate, which discovered Stephen Crane, serializing his Red Badge of Courage. Along with Crane it introduced the American public to Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Bacheller was appointed Sunday editor of The New York World under Joseph Pulitzer in 1898, but quit journalism in 1900 to focus on fiction. Eben Holden, first published in that year, was a bestseller. Bacheller returned to journalism to serve as a war correspondent during World War One in France. He died in 1950 in White Plains, NY.

Eben Holden features the voices and talents of: Tom Van de Water Art Johnson Josh Thomas Francesca Neaton Ed Hildebrand Steve Majers Sue Bastien Max Romey Will Romey Wanda Renick Peter Wycoff Rich Rummel Mike Neaton Esther Katz Denny Brandt Libby Brandt Doug Dominy Dr. Daniel Sullivan Dick Kepes David Katz Warren Wisner Lee Van de Water Paul Bevins Fiddle: Gretchen Koehler Guitar: Joel Hurd

It seemed a simple enough idea: let's make an audio edition of a classic North Country novel. Three months and 2400 audio files later, it didn't seem so simple. Engineer Joel Hurd was still mixing and editing a few hours before airtime, December 30, 2001. The production received immediate acclaim and sparked requests for rebroadcasts, a serialized version, CD copies, and a web version. The episodes below provide more than three hours of Irving Bacheller's timeless tale of the North Country, the 1900 bestseller Eben Holden.

from the Preface of the 1900 edition:
This book has grown out of such enforced leisure as one may find in a busy life. . . The characters were mostly men and women I have known and who left with me a love of my kind that even a wide experience with knavery and misfortune has never dissipated.

• Episode 1 (11:58)
  Leaving Northern Vermont
• Episode 2 (10:59)
  Crossing Lake Champlain
• Episode 3 (10:20)
  On the way to Paradise Valley
• Episode 4 (13:26)
  A Delay in the Trip
• Episode 5 (6:12)
  The Kindness of Strangers
• Episode 6 (5:38)
  Starting a new life in Paradise Valley
• Episode 7 (15:01)
  A Winter Adventure
• Episode 8 (8:43)
  Sugaring
• Episode 9 (7:46)
  Goodbye to an Old Friend
• Episode 10 (7:30)
  Racing Towards Adulthood
• Episode 11 (10:02)
  A Love of Music
• Episode 12 (5:26)
  Hope Goes Away
• Episode 13 (7:35)
  Gerald Brower Fights for his Life
• Episode 14 (5:24)
  A Christmas of Mixed Emotions
• Episode 15 (3:22)
  Bill Confesses his Love for Hope
• Episode 16 (8:25)
  Horse Trading
• Episode 17 (3:25)
  A Time of Change
• Episode 18 (1:14)
  Selling the Homestead
• Episode 19 (4:38)
  Graduation Time
• Episode 20 (7:24)
  Uncle Eb and Bill go to New York
• Episode 21 (3:31)
  Visiting Hope in New York, Part 1
• Episode 22 (6:52)
  Visiting Hope in New York, Part 2
• Episode 23 (3:09)
  Hope Moves On
• Episode 24 (14:15)
  Bill Goes to War
• Episode 25 (9:57)
  Bill Returns a Hero
• Episode 26 (7:17)
  Christmas at Home
• Episode 27 (7:01)
  Back from the Dead
• Episode 28 (3:06)
  You Can Go Home Again