Can you believe Ralph Waldo Emerson was invited to speak at Port Byron in 1858?
It's true!
A published book of Emerson's pocket diary shows that Horace V Howland and Finlay M King attempted to bring Emerson to Port Byron. The biographer suggests that Port Byron was unable to pay Emerson's fee, so the engagement never took place.
The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson