Ivers Whitney Adams

Mr. Adams' interest in outdoor athletic sports in a general way, more particularly in baseball, led him to consider the possibility of establishing such a team for Boston.

Could satisfactory backing be found for it in Boston after the eliminating of pool and liquor selling on the grounds, factors then in vogue with most of the semi-professional teams in existence in different parts of the country?

Mr. Adams' attention was called to them, and in conversation with a leading local cricketer at that time, he became convinced the Wrights were the men wanted, and failing to secure them, the effort would be abandoned.

He was interested in the propagation of fish, and for some years leased from the town of Ashburnham, Upper Naukeag Lake, on Millers River where he maintained a summer home on an island.

The statue is a life size bronze figure on a granite base and depicts a 12-year-old schoolboy walking to his one-room district school in 1850.

Adams gave the statue to the town to honor and encourage young country boys, like he at one point was, to value education so they could take their love of nature, community spirit and creative thinking, learned in the Ashburnham pioneering woods out into the world.