This summer, I am working with local videographer Ethney McMahon (who deserves credit for most of the content of the video library that graces and enriches our website) to transform the History of Proctor slideshow into a video. The relative permanence of a video (on DVD, for example,) has motivated me to make the slideshow as complete, balanced and accurate as possible. To this end, I have been mucking around in Proctor archives, in search of more old photos. This Corner features some of what I found. This photo, taken from the Currier farm on Beech Hill at a time when much land was deforested for sheep pasturage, shows the village with a corduroy (wood) road extending south across Blackwater River.

The Carr family and the Proctor family were clearly related by blood in addition to their shared passion for this school. Several Carrs have Proctor as their middle name, and the young man at the left in this image is Proctor Carr. Mrs. John Proctor, seated at left, joined the family of Clarence Carr (right) for this photograph.

The school posed for the following image in front of the First Academy Building, which burned on January 13, 1901.

This image shows a horse-drawn sleigh on Main Street. The Second Academy Building, visible behind Proctor Block, dates this image to the early 1900s. Today, Jake's Market stands to the right.

Boys sat on the steps of the Second Academy prior to its loss (by fire) in 1931.

Many of the images I found are yellowed, creased, Ken Burnsian photos of teams. This endearing image features a helmeted football squad listening to a coach next to the Chapel, after its construction in 1910.

Roland and Connie Burbank sit with Gannett House boys in this photo from 1938-39. Our beloved trustee and benefactor, Bill Wise '39, who died earlier this year, is fifth from the right in the back row.