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Heavy Whether
Chris Daly posts a 1995 essay he wrote for the Atlantic, recalling almost exactly the experience I had as a kid growing up and skating on ponds in the winter. An excerpt: When I was a boy skating on Brooks … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Past, Places, Sports
Tagged Bergen Record, Borg, Borg's Woods, Boston, Brooks Estate, Brooks Pond, childhood, Chris Daly, freedom, Greenwood Lake, Maywood, Medford, skating, Spy Pond, West Milford Argus
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Ice stories
For most of Winter in the Northeast, skating is possible only during the somewhat rare times when the ice is thick and not covered with snow or other unwelcome surface conditions. And bad skating has been the story, typically, for … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Future, Geology, history, Life, Past, Photography, Places, Sports
Tagged Frederic Tudor, hockey, Photography, Spy Pond, The Ice King
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