One April morning, a young woman from the Susquehanna Valley began teaching at the school on Nicholai Street. On that day, neither Hicksville nor Mabel Rebecca Farley could have realized that they were embarking on an enduring and transformative relationship.

This article, which covers Miss Farley's first twenty years in Hicksville, is the first installment in a series of Ancient Hixtory articles about her life and career.

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