By Donald A. Windsor

Deputy Historian, Chenango County

In spite of the dire admonition by Thomas Wolfe in the title of his 1934 novel, “You Can’t Go Home Again,” many of us do. And, of course, we suffer the consequences. Things change and “home” is no longer home.

Daniel B. “Dan” Noble knows this very well. His birth home once stood along Frenchmans Road in the Town of Plymouth. The site is now part of state land and Frenchmans Road has long since been abandoned. All that remains are a stone-lined cellar, a well, and foundations of a barn, a silo, and a few outbuildings.