This is the last post in the project. So I sum up, a bit.

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.

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

Noyes Academy ended up in Canaan for a whole bunch of reasons. Most of them revolved around abolitionist N.P. Rogers.

This is the beginning of the story of Noyes Academy as told by William Wallace. In this post, I mostly provide context.

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

Mrs. Avery had something to say about her living situation. She said it with fire.

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

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

Canaan had a lot of trouble in the early years attracting settled preaching. One barrier was all the volunteers who dominated the service

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

The first war against trees was the first big push to get some money out of New Hampshire

The abolitionists seem to be almost angelic in their early insistence on human rights. Except they may have had a blind spot of two.

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

The narrative of Noyes Academy begins on August 15, 1834. It was a busy day.