from the boston globe , november 20 , 1992 ( p.1 ) : a happy thanksgiving in somerville anonymous benefactor gives 30m to orphanage the stunned directors of the new england home for little wanderers announced at a hastily called press conference late this afternoon that christmas is coming a little early for the hundred-and-fifty-year-old orphanage this year , thanks to a thirty-million-dollar bequest from an anonymous donor .