Vox in the Box

DEAR VOX. Every time I pass Webster Cottage I wonder what goes on inside and whether Daniel Webster actually bwned it? Is it now some kind of a secret society? Curious Soph

DEAR CURIOUS, Daniel Webster 1801 didn't own the place, but lie rented a room there as an undergraduate. The cottage was built in 1780 by the Rev. Sylvanus Ripley, class of 1771 six years after he married Eleazar Wheelock's daughter, Abigail; The cottage subsequently passed through many hands uintil being acquired by the College in 1900. Today, maintained by the Hanover Historical Society, it is open to the public a couple of afternoons a week from May through October. Vox believes a visit is worth your time, for you will see not only Daniel Webster's room, but also the rest of a prototypical New England home furnished with period antiques from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There are Webster artifacts (e.g., a leather fire bucket—required of all students) arid a table made of wood from the Old Pine. Vox

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