Exoniana: ALL ABOOOOOOARD!

Left my cellphone on the train on the way to school. Thankfully the lovely folks found it and I was able to get it back! Haha, my mom was gunna kill me. Catherine Shipps ’13

Probably apocryphal, but my dad told a story about [famed blues singer] Lead Belly coming to perform at Exeter, and when the teacher who invited him walked Lead Belly to the station, he hopped a freight train out of town.

Patrick Cahn ’88

Lead Belly did perform at Exeter in the fall or winter of 1948-49. I heard him. Of interest is the fact that the program in the arts series which preceded his by a few weeks was an organ recital by the world-famous Marcel Dupré on the Aeolian-Skinner organ in Phillips Church.

Hoyt Winslett ’52

In the fall of 1963, I took the train so I could go to a doctor’s appointment in Boston. I was 13 at the time. I think the train went to North Station. I took a cab to Children’s Hospital from there. I don’t remember telling anyone about my trip.

Nicholas Volkman ’67

My dad took the train from Florida to Exeter as a student in the late ’40s.

Alexis Mead Walker

— All responses originally posted on social media