Grover’s Corners. A fictional place in New England often cited as a typical rural town. From Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town (1938). In the play one character refers to a letter ad- dressed to “Jane Crofut; The Crofut Farm; Grover’s Corners; Sutton County; New Hampshire; United States of America . . . Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar System; the Universe; the Mind of God . . .” |