Newburyport High School - Enaitchess Yearbook (Newburyport, MA)

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l ' lo, 4 Tv .tl .IAQ A4 7 l'7Hf t'f6ll20I'Llft'Ij' ffI,l'U7l'Il IIZUIIIHII lass Zia is t u rp O11 june 17 in the year 2058. I started o11 :ny eventful trip to Mars. lfxztetly l32 years ago I had gradua- ted on that date from the New- buryport lligh School. If any one had told me at that time that I should live to be 150 years old, I should have laughed at him. But it is surprising what miracles science can accomplish Calthough they are no longer considered miraclcsi, and now people who looked old to me then are actually enjoying a second youth. Being now 250 years old, fthat trip having occurred IOU years agoj there is no reason to believe that l shall not. live to be at least 750. B111 to get back to my story. My friend Nathaniel Black, the greatest scientist and explorer the world has produced. l1ad 'lor some l.lIllC been planning a trip to the planet, Xlars. Strange shadows seen from the earth on the planet had bee11 puzzling scientists. and at last it was deemed advisable to finance a trip to the planet. hlr. Black was chosen for this tremendous un- dertaking and for twenty years he had been making preparations. He had constructed a ship run by elec- tricity that would withstand either extreme heat or cold. There was condensed focd stored upon it to last twenty years. Two other persons and I were lortttnate enough to accompany Xlr. Black. large crowds were at the '4Plains to see us oil. If we should be in trouble, we were to communi- cate with the earth at once. It was estimated that it would take us a month tio reach our destination. I shall not attempt to describe the journey. At lirst the higher up we went we noticed an increasing lack ol' air, but thanks to the special air compartments in the ship we had no difhculty, and after we had passed a Certain ZOHC-KVC once more could breathe freely. NYC were floating live Weeks be- fore we reached Mars. As We ap- proached the planet a strange light enveloped us. At last we came in sight of the planet and circled about it. llfe were all so dumfounded that we could not utter a word. Gone were the hopes of mankind of a human species inhabiting Nlars, and C75 l

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v0 'Ov 054 .xr 4 M y gone were the hopes of communica- tion between it and the earth. All surmises in regard to the planet were shattered, but the strange shad- ows were indeed explained. How simple it all seems to me now, but how awesome, and terrifying 1 thought it then. Mars is, in t.ruth, the earth's looking glass. The shadows of Xlars are the shadows of the events which have taken place on earth, and even as we looked events were being reflected. Wie landed. A remarkable thing about the shadows was that we could sail right through them without affecting them in the least. We had been on Mars for lif- tecn years studying the history of the world when one day 1 happened upon a remote corner, where 1 sat down to study the shadows around me. A crowd of children floated be- fore me and entered an old brick building. 1 saw myself walking a- mong them, and 1 knew 1 was look- ing upon the birth of the Class of 1926. 1Vhat a scared looking bunch of freshies they were. lflow the boys, knees trembled as they en- tered Room 2, and how many hearts were broken as lifelong friends were separated, one to go down in Room 1 and the other to stay in the Hall. The scaredness and newness soon wore off, and li saw the children strut.- ting around as if they owned the place. ln one shadow 1 saw the upper classmen talking together and pointing at a poor little freshie. They had just discovered that h-lary Nelson was only twelve years old. Next a group of dancers floated before me. All were not dancing, however, and holding up the walls were little girls all dressed in white, and small boys most of them wear- ing short pants. l noticed one boy in particular who was doing a very good job holding up the wall, and who looked as if he had been dragged there against his will. 1 looked closer and beheld Art Brown. Those shadows passed on, and the next was one of a football lieltl. llere it was more difficult to lind my classmates, but l found some scattered here and there shouting with all the ardor of seniors. 1 did not have much difficulty in lo- cating the girls as a blur of red caught my eye, and under this bunch ol color was Loretta Bannon. As l looked, it seemed to me that l heard that Salem had a football team in 1492, and Newburyport had a loot- ball t.eam in 1922, and 1 realized that I was watching the eventful game between Salem and Newbury- port when Newburyport won 6-0. It was a proud gang of freshmen Q33