A PLACE IN TIME   

     " The modern hero is a person who does something  everyone thinks they could do if they were a little stronger, a little faster, a little smarter, or a little more generous.    Heroes in ancient time were the link between man and perfect beings, gods.   Heroes in modern times are the link between man as he is and man as he could be."    
                                                                                                              --Wade Edwards, June 1995

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    Each school day at lunch time, students at Broughton High School gather at the picnic area adjacent to the Science Wing.  Beneath the shade of tall oaks, they eat and study and enjoy one another's company.  For four years, this is the students' place.  And then each moves on.  It was in this embracing but necessarily transient community that the Wade Edwards Foundation decided to build a structure that could contribute to the communal experience of each student and could mark both the transcience of their stay here and the permanence of their collective spirit.

    The incredible structure was conceived and executed by Thomas Sayre.  Thomas explained that the structure, modeled on a comet, represents the bright light each of us reflects in the short time we are here.

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    The structure is one hundred and six feet long.  A tiered undulating bench marks the property line  between Broughton High School and the public street adjacent to it.   At the head of the bench, there is a wall of handprints.  Students who attended Broughton and who Wade knew over his sixteen years, from classmates at day care, boys with whom he had played soccer, roommates at camp, fellow yearbook staff, his closest friends, and his sister, placed their hands in wax in Thomas Sayre's studio. The wax molds were used to create the wall of handprints, the contribution of many to the lives of each of us and all of us.  A few lines Wade wrote when he was 15 -- quoted above -- are inscribed in the plaza in front of the wall of handprints.

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Some of the Broughton students whose handprints are in the wall of A Place in Time.

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Gov. & Mrs. Hunt at the Dedication.       Matt, who worked with Thomas, at the wall.