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.

August 10, 1835. Come to Canaan. Going to be wild. Bring an Ox.

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

Would Noyes Academy have survived without Trussell's war on "perjured Masons?" Wallace thinks it might have.

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

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...

Each side of the Noyes Academy debate tried to ascertain whether they had the support of the town. They interpreted results differently.

I thought Masons v. Anti-Masons was going to be about one aspect of the events surrounding Noyes Academy. It got bigger.