P.O. Box 991 Groton, Massachusetts 01450-0991
Groton School The Quarterly • Winter 2019
WHAT’S WRONG WITH NYC?
BACK
CIRC LI
G
PAID
North Reading, MA Permit 6
Change Service Requested
N
Non-profit Org. U.S. Postage
Groton School • The Quarterly
Groton School
FOLLOW GROTON:
Winter 2019 • Volume LXXX , No. 1
This tiny, leatherbound edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was read to Groton boys starting in 1899, if not earlier. The inscription inside the front cover says: “Read to the boys of Groton School … 1899, 1900, 1901.” Facing the inscription is the signature of Samuel Endicott Peabody, the father of Groton School founder Endicott Peabody. A letter by the school founder reveals that Groton students sent the elder Peabody a petition in 1889, asking him to come to the Circle and read to them. During that visit, he read the Dickens classic, too.
TOM WRIGHT ’87 KNOWS, AND HE’S GOT BUY-IN FOR SOME BIG SOLUTIONS