ABSTRACT
In January 1916, about a decade after their last public conflict, Franklin Sanborn wrote in the Springfield Republican that he had met Helen Keller on the train after she gave an antiwar speech. The brief report noted some of Sanborn’s chance connection with Keller (though he did not mention their past conflicts) in an approving, knowing way, for they were on the same side now, fighting against the looming American intervention in Europe’s Great War. 1 Interestingly Sanborn, Keller, and Sullivan Macy shared many views that probably still mark the New England area, such as a tendency to oppose foreign wars, at least more so than other regions of the United States.
