Sunday, April 26, 2009

Rowing Evening May 26

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Rowers! Mark your calendars. On Tuesday, May 26 at 6:30 p.m., Bank Square Books on 53 West Main Street in historical downtown of Mystic is h...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Celebrating 30 Years

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Here is a little post script to the previous entry, “Time of Glory”, posted on April 21. One of the first articles I ever wrote about rowing...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Time of Glory

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On May the 14th 1911, James Farrell of the London Rowing Club arrived in Malmö, Sweden. He was invited by the Swedish Olympic Rowing Committ...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

One of the Great Professional Scullers

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Today it is exactly one month since I started this blog on rowing history. To celebrate this I am posting a rare photograph of the English p...
Friday, April 10, 2009

How much did you say?

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When I began collecting rowing books years ago, no antiquarian book dealers posted their books on sites on the internet, mainly because the ...
Friday, April 3, 2009

Merry Rowing Christmas 1913

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In December 1913, Ernest Hellström, a Swede who had immigrated to the United States and lived in the town East Orange, New Jersey, received ...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009

"New" boat type to be launched

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Nowadays, as you know, almost every builder of racing shells around the world can offer a customized boat for a buyer’s special needs. It do...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Oxford wins the 155th Boat Race

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Although Cambridge, who had a superb crew this year, had a slight lead in the beginning of the 155th Boat Race, which was held on the River ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Boat Race

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On Sunday, 29 March 2009, it is time again for the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race, commonly known as just The Boat Race. It is the 155th r...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Have you read any good rowing poetry lately?

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On getting the question what poetry is, an editor once replied: “It’s that which can’t be edited.” This being true or not, honestly there is...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Collecting Rowing Books

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In the early spring of 1990, my good friend Per Ekström and I were appointed editors for the Swedish Rowing Association’s magazine Rodd [Ro...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Rowing History Forum 2009

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Since 2003 the Friends of Rowing History, Mystic Seaport Museum, and the National Rowing Foundation have organized four Rowing History Forum...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

The National Rowing Hall of Fame

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On March 9, 2009, it was exactly one year since the National Rowing Hall of Fame opened its doors at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Co...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Water Boiling Aft London Rowing Club, The First 150 Years 1856-2006

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Rowing is a long-standing sport and the cradle of modern rowing rocked on the River Thames. Besides the rowing at the Oxbridge universities,...

Beauty and the Boats

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Thomas E. Weil Jr. of Connecticut might not be familiar to the man in the street or even to active rowers, but to rowing historians and sch...