Reminiscences of the Children’s Fair

From 1862 to 1911

“One afternoon in September 1862 (date not recalled), the Pastor of the Congregational Church and Prof. E. T. Quimby, preceptor of our Academy. we driving home from a Sunday School Convention held at East Wilton, and the Rev, Mr Cutler and Prof. Quimby fell into a talk in regard to the possibility of training children that they, in the early beginning of their lives, would feel it a pleasure and a duty to share with others the good gifts of life bestowed so freely on themselves,” 

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