| This was formerly Marshall High School, from which John Bellairs graduated in 1955. Hoosac High School was patterned after Marshall High School.
". . . he went down the “wide, slippery staircase . . . the shadowy main corridor, past the windows of the school office toward the entrance . . . the high, columned porch.” The chemistry lab on the third floor of the high school is where the “lamp” was hidden away . . . ”in a closet with a heavy oak door [and, as it turns out, a trap door in the ceiling] at the back of the lab.” |
