Broken Glass and Detritus from White River Junction

Broken Glass And Detritus From White River Junction. Automobile saftey glass, dirt, nasty street grime, and a cigarette butt, with fiberglass filter. Collected street-side, White River Junction, Vermont. 1996 – 2002, c.e.

There is evidence here of car theft in White River Jct. Such crime is rare, however.

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Historic Perspective

Prankish Proclivities (Editorial Reminiscence)

Students from nearby Dartmouth College had boarded the evening train at Norwich, filling the several cars completely. The conductor reported that he had collected but one mileage from the entire 800 and officials told him he did well to get that. A presumptuous actor was the star of a series of plays at White River’s first picture house. Dartmouths were numerous in the audience and challenged the quality of the performance. The next evening many Dartmouths replied to taunts of the actor with eggs and bottles. Others swarmed in second-story windows. They tore down curtains and threw out seats. Firemen turned water on the mob. The boys retaliated by throwing stones gathered at the nearby sand-bank…One of the drenched students stuck his head around a corner and yelled: “Say. you fellows are real firemen!” People rushed into stores. Merchants locked store and safe doors. Railroad men entered the fray in behalf of the townspeople. Bill St. John, an energetic plumber defending the water supply broke a student's jaw with a hydrant wrench. The state of siege lasted four hours, with the streets full of students. Town officials finally got someone in authority down from Hanover.

Times have changed. Vocal opinion alone seems to challenge. The development of athletic sports, hiking and the annual carnival seem to have provided a substitute for massed physical invasion from educational centers. —Chas. R. Cummings, editor, The Vermonter magazine, White River Jct. Vermont, 1933, vol. 38, p. 71