The decade of the '90s was a time of dry summers in central New England. Those days are gone. Here's Jeff Sweet fueling a bus under the new Irving canopy at Jake's Market.
This wetter decade has featured two springs with damaging
floods on campus, and this has been a wet summer. Director of Admission Chris Bartlett provides a campus tour to a possible applicant for 2010-11:
The tide is high at Proctor Pond, but extensive (and expensive!) new drainage systems quell fears of flooding.
Even in a typical summer, huge oscillating sprinklers spray long jets of Blackwater River water onto our playing fields. We haven't seen them yet, and Carr Field is green and lush (although a little soggy), awaiting boys' soccer camp.
Leonard Field is home to our successful football program. Incidentally, you can follow
proctorfootball on Twitter!
The weather is giving new meaning to the phrase "Proctor is a green school." Girls soccer camp will be here, on Farrell Field:
Speaking of "green school," the organic garden is doing well, despite the threat of slugs and a fungus that attacks tomato plants in damp weather.
A happy duck is enjoying conditions on Proctor Pond, where a lobsterpot buoy remains from a late-spring kayak race.
The short term forecast is for drier, sunny weather, and you can almost hear the lawnmowers droning.... Is it too much to hope?
