THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

The inhabitants of this region are the incarnation of its health, strength, and beauty – a tall, comely race; bold, steadfast, and thrifty, with very positive opinions on all subjects.  There are no Laodiceans among the men and women of the North Riding; they are one thing or another – Episcopalians or Calvinists; Conservatives or Radicals; friends or enemies.  For friendship they have a capacity closer than brotherhood.  Once friends, they are friends forever, and can be relied on in any emergency to “aid, comfort and abet,” legally or otherwise, with perhaps a special zest to give assistance, if it just smacks of the “otherwise”.

Barr/Love, 1898