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Woodsmen’s Weekend Brings Rugged Tests to Kimball Union
The annual Woodsmen’s Weekend at Kimball Union Academy Meriden N H began in 1947 under Ross McKenney a Dartmouth woodcraft instructor. Colleges including Dartmouth Middlebury Maine Paul Smith Colby McGill and Vermont sent six man squads for events like buck and crosscut sawing canoe racing and speed dropping, after rules to curb excesses were set.
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