The Babson Boulders of Dogtown

Roger Babson had a problem. His family thought he was crazy or felonious or both. He had started to carve mottoes in to the boulders which lay in the fields near the long abandoned settlement of Dogtown close to his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Image Credit Flickr User aaronknox Babson was later to write in his autobiography: My family says that I am defacing the boulders and disgracing the family with these inscriptions, but the work gives me a lot of satisfaction, fresh air, exercise and sunshine. I am really trying to write a simple book with words carved in stone instead of printed paper. Besides, when on Dogtown common, I revert to a boyhood which I once enjoyed when driving cows there many years ago. Image Credit Flickr User aaron.knox Image Credit Flickr User d4vidbruce By 1930 Babson was in his fifties and a renowned entrepreneur and business theorist, the scion of a ten generation dynasty based in Gloucester. He went to MIT and founded Babson’s Statistical Organisation…