From acorns mighty oaks grow Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (pronounced “GROVE-nor”), started out as a bit of a world traveller himself. Born in Istanbul Turkey, on October 28, 1875 as part of a pair of identical twins to a professor of European History and his wife, he had with his family travelled through most of the Ottoman East, as his father did his research. Finally, after almost twenty years aboard, the Grosvenor’s return home to the States in 1890 when he was fifteen for the three boys to get a college education. Gilbert graduated with honors from the local Amherst high…