What do you do with a New England ghost town? Well, Roger Babson, late founder of Babson college and antigravity research champion, employed down on their luck stone cutters during the Great Depression to carve inspirational slogans on boulders throughout Dogtown, Massachusetts. Dogtown was an abandoned coastal settlement from colonial times whose residents had fled in large part during the War of 1812 in fear of bombardment from the sea by the British. Most of the village has been reclaimed by the woods but Babson's sloganeering remains etched on the rocks.
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