A bronze statue of Phillips Brooks stands on a stone pedestal in the foreground, surrounded by lush green trees and pink flowering shrubs in the background.

North Andover Historical Society

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Join the Rev. Dr. Robert D. Flanagan for this lecture on Rev. Phillips Brooks, the episcopal minister who wrote the Christmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem,&nbsp;and whose statue sits on North Andover Common. Who was Rev. Phillips Brooks? What can he teach a modern audience? And why is his statue on North Andover Common? The Rev. Robert D. Flanagan, D. Min. is a professor, researcher, and advisor at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. He is the editor and a contributor to While Mortals Sleep: Reading Phillips Brooks Through 21st-century Eyes. He is also a graduate of the Brooks School and a former School Minister as well.

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Join the Rev. Dr. Robert D. Flanagan for this lecture on Rev. Phillips Brooks, the episcopal minister who wrote the Christmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem, and whose statue sits on North Andover Common. Who was Rev. Phillips Brooks? What can he teach a modern audience? And why is his statue on North Andover Common? The Rev. Robert D. Flanagan, D. Min. is a professor, researcher, and advisor at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. He is the editor and a contributor to While Mortals Sleep: Reading Phillips Brooks Through 21st-century Eyes. He is also a graduate of the Brooks School and a former School Minister as well.

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Phillips Brooks Through Contemporary Eyes or Why Is That Statue on North Andover Common?

800 Massachusetts Ave

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$5

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