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...stray tourists, the prim stillness beneath the elms is rarely disturbed by outsiders. The world-and even St. Johnsbury itself-seems unaware that the brooding, red brick building across from the courthouse is the U.S.'s oldest unaltered art gallery still standing.* Founded in 1871, the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum grew out of the 19th century fashion for industrial tycoons to dabble in the arts. Horace Fairbanks, whose uncle invented the platform scale, and whose family built the invention into the Fairbanks scale works, made the standard trip to Europe, returning with the usual milky-white copies of classics. Back...
HEROD'S CHILDREN by Ilse Aichinger. 238 pages. Athenaeum...
Again, after a fire this summer, the neglected Howard Athenaeum in Scollay Square fell before the encroachments of the same Government Center. Known to its loyal Harvard patrons as the Old Howard, the theater was closed in 1953 for unpaid back taxes. The Howard stage, largest in Boston, had seen the graces of Gypsy Rose Lee, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and John Wilkes Booth. During more than a century, it was used for religious revivals, legitimate theater, vaudeville, burlesque--even as a factory. When the end of the Howard was too close to be averted, the Howard National Theater and Museum...
...reason remains for saving the Howard. Rumor has it that Father Miller's ghost, which comes back every April 25 to haunt the Athenaeum and to repeat its favorite little couplet, may take its prophesying elsewhere if the building is demolished--perhaps even to the offices of the City Planning Board...
...gates. Many have the proper backgrounds, went to school at Eton and Oxford, served in the Guards or other "good" regiments. But. laments one adman who makes $56,000 a year: "People I grew up with, who have gone into civil service or banking, are members of the Athenaeum or Reform Club by now. I can't get in. I've tried and failed. Most of us have. It's because we have the use of so much money. Having capital is all right, but unlimited expenses are looked down...