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NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL
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new hampton, nh 03256-4243 www.newhampton.org
PAID lewiston, me permit no. 82
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H A M P T O N I A the magazine of new hampton school / state of the school report
fall 2010, volume 126, number 2
by gary f. margolis ’
Someone is bound to ask you when you return, what you think has changed, what has remained the same. The brick dormitories
nearly a half century ago, a grey-haired man stood in front of me and every other boy—teenagers really—and said our names and where we were from, so none of us
still have most of their old names and the white fence at the edge of the elmmed and mapled lawn has enough room between slats
would be able to hide, so we would be known. Standing here, in between the rows of these lines, I hope it’s not bold to say time loves that man and his wife, and I can let go
for you to climb through. No one expects you’d forget the church at the head of the street, rising on its own hill, that even
of the past to remember my love for T. Holmes Moore, who took me in. That hasn’t changed. Or the feeling of the wind coming down off the hill
a Jewish boy, you, could pray in, if he had to. And you had to, when a girl you didn’t know, back then, died and was surrounded by flowers
wanting to turn a page in a book that boy under the elm is trying read. So he can get ahead in his reading. So he can have something to say
beyond the first row. Now, there are girls who go to school here, although that girl with the lacrosse stick I see on the field behind Berry Hall, flowering
in class, he didn’t know he knew. So he could begin to understand what it means to return to school that isn’t exactly home and still is.
inside her helmet, I wouldn’t quickly call a flower. I have no way of knowing her name. Yet there’s no way I can forget, on my first night of school,
Gary Margolis ’ is the Executive Director of Counseling and an Associate Professor of English at Middlebury College. Gary has written three books of poetry, most recently, “Below the Falls” (Autumn House Press).
john detemple ’89, the image-maker, is becoming a household name in the world of hollywood and action sports.
New Hampton School Fall 2010 Hamptonia magazine. Finished size is 11.0 inches tall by 8.50 inches wide. Artwork prints in four-color process and bleeds all four sides. Cover artwork; Cover IV and Cover I. (0.22 inches has been allowed for perfect-bound spine.)