All posts tagged "racing"
-
6.3KPolitics and MilitaryRhode Island’s Little Annapolis: The PT Boat Training Center at Melville
During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
-
3.0KConnecticutThe Prohibition Era Begins in Litchfield, Conn. in 1789
In 1789, Ephraim Kirby, Jebediah Strong, David Buel and more than 100 of their neighbors decided to swear off strong drink. They...
-
6.3K2ConnecticutHiram Bingham, Connecticut’s Indiana Jones, Stumbles onto Machu Picchu
In July of 1911, Hiram Bingham raced to climb to the top of South America’s tallest mountain before a 60-year-old schoolteacher named...
-
15.9K6MaineUSS Squalus Rescue: World Awaits News of Sailors’ Fate
In 1939, the greatest submarine rescue in history was undertaken off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. This is the second part of...
-
10.4K7Rhode IslandThe Narragansett Pacer – the Lost Horse of the New England Colonies
It’s not exactly clear when the first horse officially called a Narragansett Pacer appeared in Rhode Island, though it was likely in...
-
7.4K1Arts and LeisureEleonora Sears, Blueblood Bad Girl on the Tennis Courts
Eleonora Sears pioneered women’s sports in the way only a Boston blueblood could. When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to...
- Arts and Leisure
Seabiscuit Takes His First Step to Fame at Suffolk Downs
Seabiscuit, the knock-kneed little horse with the big heart, met the man who made him a champion at Suffolk Downs Race Course...
-
11.2K3Arts and LeisureMajor Taylor, World-Famous Black Athlete in 1899, Dies in Obscurity in 1932
Fifty years before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball, Major Taylor conquered bicycle racing despite death threats and deliberate injury. At the...
-
6.0K2Arts and LeisureDancer’s Image, the NH Horse that Won and Lost the Kentucky Derby
The New Hampshire thoroughbred Dancer’s Image won, then lost, the Kentucky Derby in 1968 because his owner made a kind gesture to...
-
9.7K8Arts and LeisureHow To Make a Maine May Basket
An old New England tradition that perhaps deserves reviving is the giving of a May basket on May Day. It was popular...
To Top
