ON MY WAY BACK FROM A TRIP TO CALIFORNIA, I DECIDED TO STOP OFF AND SEE BOYSTOWN. WHEN MR. HAND WAS A SMALL BOY HE SAW SPENCER TRACY AS FATHER FLANAGAN. HE DECIDED THEN AND THERE THAT HE WANTED TO HELP CHILDREN WHEN HE GREW UP. SO I GUESS I OWE A BUNCH TO BOYSTOWN. IF MR. HAND HAD NEVER SEEN THE MOVIE “BOYSTOWN”, HE MIGHT NOT HAVE BECOME A TEACHER AND I NEVER WOULD HAVE EVER EXISTED. THANKS FATHER FLANAGAN!

A TIME TO REFLECT.

ELWOOD DECIDED TO CHILL OUT FOR A SECOND AT THE “FOUR LIONS” FOUNTAIN. THE LIONS REPRESENT COURAGE AND HOPE FOR ALL THE CHILDREN AT BOYSTOWN.

“HE AIN’T HEAVY, HE’S M’ BROTHER”

MY GUIDE CASSI EXPLAINS THE MEANING OF THE STATUE.

CASSI TOLD ELWOOD THAT THE BROTHERS SYMBOLIZE THE SPIRIT AND MISSION OF BOYSTOWN. HOWARD LOOMIS, ONE OF THE FIRST RESIDENTS OF BOYSTOWN, COULDN’T WALK AND THE LARGER BOYS WOULD CARRY HIM AROUND THE CAMPUS.