Middlebury skis to lure students and bolster village growth
The article describes a Vermont community developing a rustic, compact town around a ski area with board walks and corner shops led by Andrew Clapp. Middlebury College expanded Worth Mountain with a Bailey Falls slope, a four thousand two hundred foot double chair lift, and three new trails. The campus spent about four hundred thousand dollars last year to keep pace with rivals and attract students, aided by a coed environment and racing interest.
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Bailey Falls
Middlebury
Worth Mountain
Dartmouth
Middlebury College
M.G.M
First ski Mass celebrated in United States at Berlin New Hampshire
An 1936 American Ski Annual report describes the first ski Mass held Dec 27 1936 at St Kieran’s Church Berlin NH with Rev J D O Connor and Rev Patrick E Walsh blessing skis. The event reportedly became annual in the Granite State town home to early winter carnivals and the Nansen Ski Club. The Mass was later discontinued as skiing faded. current pastor says no ski Mass or nearby ski area remains.
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Berlin
N.H
St. Kieran’s Church
United States
J.D. O’connor
Patrick E. Walsh
Granite State City
Nansen Ski Club
St. Kieran’s
Richard Bosa
Lve
Wildcat
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Sharon
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New England
Great Barrington, MA
Stockbridge Road
Great Barrington
Gt. Barr
Housatonic St., Lenox