Showing posts from category: History

On the Willamette River

A Wild West Rowing Story

Author's Reflections, Collegiate rowing, History, Reviews 16 May 24

On Arabs and Jews and Rowing

History, Reviews, Uncategorized 26 Nov 23

Rowing for Grace

Author's Reflections, Collegiate rowing, History, Uncategorized, Women 04 Jun 23

How that Regatta Detour Came to Be

Author's Reflections, History, Racing 16 Apr 23

Rick Stehlik: Carving Out History

art, History, Malta Boat Club, Thomas Eakins 16 Mar 23

Remembering John Izzard

African Americans, News, Undine Barge Club 22 Sep 22

Philly Women Host New Stamp Launch

art, News, Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club, Uncategorized, Women 12 May 22

A Calyo Up for Auction

art, History, Undine Barge Club 23 Feb 22

Shocking! They Fixed Races Then

art, History, Racing, Thomas Eakins, Uncategorized 18 Oct 21

Ted Nash, 1932-2021

Author's Reflections, Collegiate rowing, News, Olympics, Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club 05 Jul 21

It’s Official: Kudos for Cwiklinski

Characters, News, Racing, Vesper Boat Club 16 Jun 21

So, Who Was “Dad” Vail?

Collegiate rowing, History, Racing 07 May 21

More Kudos for Cwiklinski

Collegiate rowing, News, Olympics, Vesper Boat Club 05 Mar 21

The 76ers, Diversity and Boathouse Row

African Americans, News, PennAC 08 Jan 21

The Pioneering Women Who First Raced Abroad

History, Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club, Racing, Uncategorized, Women 29 Nov 20

The “Lehman” Destroyer

History, News, Vesper Boat Club 09 Nov 20

Remembering Joe Sweeney

Author's Reflections, History, News, PennAC 07 Sep 20

How Women Won the Right to Row

History, Olympics, Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club, Racing, Thomas Eakins, Women 11 Aug 20

Rowing While Black

African Americans, History, News 25 Jun 20

A Hearty Hartigan Farewell

Collegiate rowing, History, News, Olympics 18 Jun 20

The Virus that Bred the Sport of Rowing

Architecture, Author's Reflections, Bachelors Barge Club, History, Olympics, Uncategorized 09 Apr 20

Manny and “The Flicks”

High school rowing, History, Racing 08 Feb 20

Viva the Viking

art, History, News 30 Jan 20

Remembering Joan Lind

Olympics, Racing, Women 08 Jan 20

Anita DeFrantz: A Quiet Force

African Americans, History, Olympics, Racing, Vesper Boat Club, Women 09 Dec 19

1876: Racing at the Centennial

Author's Reflections, History, News, Racing 06 Nov 19

Hailing Coxswain John Hartigan

Author's Reflections, Collegiate rowing, History, News, Uncategorized 27 Oct 19

The Amlongs: Part of a Victorious “Motley Crew”

Racing, Vesper Boat Club 25 Oct 19

Lest We Forget Coach Joe Burk

Author's Reflections, Characters, Collegiate rowing, History 15 Oct 19

How Jack Kelly Touched the Life of a Cornell Oarsman

Author's Reflections, Collegiate rowing, Racing, Vesper Boat Club 19 Jul 19

RIP Joe Amlong, Olympian

History, Vesper Boat Club 06 Jul 19

Salvaging History

Bachelors Barge Club, History, Malta Boat Club, Uncategorized, Undine Barge Club, university Barge Club 21 Jun 19

Who was E. T. Stotesbury?

Bachelors Barge Club, History, Racing, Uncategorized 16 May 19

Living Inside Boathouse Row

Architecture, History, News, Undine Barge Club 03 Mar 19

Rebirth of an Old Park House

Architecture, History 05 Feb 19

A White Rower Reflects on a Fists-Raised Olympics

African Americans, History, News 18 Dec 18

Joe Sweeney’s View from Boathouse Row

Architecture, art, News, Undine Barge Club 14 Dec 18

The Hitler Olympics: A Fuller Truth?

Author's Reflections, Collegiate rowing, History, Racing 09 Nov 18

Famous Viking Knocked from Pedestal

History, News, sculpture 02 Oct 18

Hidden Visions of Frank Furness

Architecture, History, Undine Barge Club 23 Jun 18

The Crew that Rowed to NYC

Bachelors Barge Club, History 31 May 18

Can the Row’s Relics be Rescued?

Archiving, Bachelors Barge Club, History, Malta Boat Club, Undine Barge Club 15 Apr 18

John Izzard: On Race and Rowing

African Americans, History, Undine Barge Club 02 Mar 18

Jim Barker: A Quiet Force for Diversity

Characters, History, Undine Barge Club, Women 25 Feb 18

Anita DeFrantz: “My Olympic Life”

Characters, History, Women 14 Feb 18

Joan Specter: A Rower with Recipes

Author's Reflections, Bachelors Barge Club, History, Women 29 Jan 18

Skating in Thomas Eakins’ Time

History, Thomas Eakins 04 Jan 18

Behind the Lights of Boathouse Row

Architecture, History, News, Women 13 Dec 17

Rowing at Undine in the early 1860s

History, Undine Barge Club 11 Dec 17

Joseph Boggs Beale and Philly’s Film History

History 03 Dec 17

John B. Kelly Jr Enters Sports Hall of Fame

Characters, History, News 02 Nov 17

Thomas Eakins: His Rowing Roots

Characters, History, Racing 23 Oct 17

Coach Stan Bergman: His Turf is the Surf

Author's Reflections, History 17 Aug 17

Who is “Stotesbury” of the Stotesbury Regatta?

Characters, History 02 Aug 17

Sedgeley: First Women on the Row

History, Women 31 Jul 17

Gus Constant and the Women of 1976

History, Women 28 Jul 17

A Hidden Philly Gem: The Corinthian Yacht Club

History 28 Jul 17

The Trials and Triumphs of Seattle’s Early Oarswomen

History, Women 28 Jul 17

Anne Boyle Gilmartin: She Raced in the 1950s

History, Women 27 Jul 17

Jinx Becker: An Early Champion Reminisces

History, Women 27 Jul 17

The (1927) Poetry of Wellesley College Crew

History, Women 26 Jul 17

1936 Olympics: What Might Have Been

History, Racing 26 Jul 17

Who Were the Men in 1956 Crew?

Characters, History 25 Jul 17

Temple Coach Gavin White: On Tom Curran

Characters, History 24 Jul 17

A Notorious Irish Prison Reveals the True Kelly Story

History 20 Jul 17

Women’s Rowing First Made Waves in Philly

History 12 Aug 16