Some of the Noyes students were the best and brightest of their generation.

For Wallace, the story of Noyes Academy was the pointless loss of a school that would have transformed his beloved Canaan.

Did they have to have such a damned good time dragging that cannon up and down the Street?

Noyes Academy was destroyed on August 10 1835. On August 11, the corpse was dragged down the street.

The destroyers of the school went to great lengths to pretend they were within the law. They weren't. Not even close.

Once Noyes Academy was established, both its supporters and its opponents held rallies to drum up support for their side.

The Congregationalist church hired its first minister in 1825. He wasn't much of a success.

Part 2 of Mrs. Wallace vs. the evil forger Isaac Dole in which famed abolitionist N.P. Rogers rides to the rescue

Mrs. Wallace (our author's mother) was the victim of a swindle. She got her revenge!

I had two interests when I began Wallace’s History of Canaan . The first was Noyes Academy and the second was apples. I'm surprised to...

William P. Weeks seemed to have everything a man could want. But he seems to have wanted something else.

Elder Wheat was his not always his best at a funeral, despite what Wallace wants you to believe.

Money, the having and not having of which makes all the difference.

Winter is settling in on 1834 and both the supporters and opponents of Noyes are busy.

Even the best among us can be powerless in the face of determined evil. But there will be sheep, so not to worry.