History of Grover's Corners
With Professor Willard
Let's have a little interview with the Professor now with the history of Grover's Corners. Let's see what he has to say. Professor: "Grover's Corners lies on the old Pleistocene granite of the Appalachian range. It's some of the onl land in the world. A shelf of Devonian Basalt crosses the town with vestiges of Mesozoic shale, and some sand outcroppings; but that's all more recent: two hundred, three hundred million years old. Some highly interesting fossils have been found... I may say:unique fossils ... two miles out of town, in Silas Peckham's cow pasture. They can be seen at the museum in our University at an time- that is, at any reasonable time..."
"...Anthropological data: Early Amerindian stock. Cotahotchee tribes..... no evidence before the tenth century of this era...hm...now entirely disappeared...possible traces in three families. Migration toward the end of the seventeenth century of English brachiocephalic blue-eyed stock.. for the most part. Since then some Slav and Mediterranean-
"The population,at the moment, is 2,642. The Postal District brings in 507 more, making a total of 3,149.- Mortality and birth rates:constant.- ...."
"...Anthropological data: Early Amerindian stock. Cotahotchee tribes..... no evidence before the tenth century of this era...hm...now entirely disappeared...possible traces in three families. Migration toward the end of the seventeenth century of English brachiocephalic blue-eyed stock.. for the most part. Since then some Slav and Mediterranean-
"The population,at the moment, is 2,642. The Postal District brings in 507 more, making a total of 3,149.- Mortality and birth rates:constant.- ...."