In 1938, the play "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning evocation of small-town life in Grover's Corners, N.H., was performed publicly for the first time, at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J.
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"... To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know - that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and
blindness."
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From the third act of "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder