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Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 63: April, 1963
The farm, of course, was the old Neck Farm of Ebenezer Knight Dexter, which had become the Dexter Asylum. Today it is aldrich-dexter Field.
Most of us in Providence looked upon the Asylum as an old friend; we'd been aware of it most of our lives. We used to make it a point to call a visitor's attention to it as we passed the stalwart walls, offering the while the few snatches of information and misinformation we possessed. I think we rather enjoyed the stranger's amazement at this relic of an ancient benevolence, which had become an anachronism: 39 acres of farm land in the heart of residential Providence. Its story and that of Mr. Dexter now are appropriate as en tries in the Brown University archives and folklore.
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