Cannon in D Major
Henry Mellen ’38
There was the occasion one evening when tin waste paper baskets were pyramided against the dorm master’s closed door.
A heavy cannonball, purloined from the village green, rumbled ponderously down the hall, through the baskets and door, and amputated the Steinway within, bringing it down on the owner’s legs with all 88 keys playing a spectacular concerto. He survived.
These and many other experiences all went into the chapter that fashioned our history at Pomfret.
