WHAT A RICH SKI HISTORY AND HERITAGE we have, and that was celebrated anew this week as a way to share it with our local fourth-graders from five of the valley’s elementary schools. Having participated Monday-Wednesday in the re-enactment of the Hannes Schneider family’s arrival at the North Conway Train Station on Feb. 11, 1939 — portraying Austrian skimeister Benno Rybizka to George Cleveland’s Harvey D. Gibson, and Hannah and Christoph Schneider’s Ludwina and Hannes Schneider the first two days and with Sue and Jim Tuttle playing those roles the final day — I say from the bottom of my ski-history loving heart that it was an enriching experience.
As the New England Ski Museum’s motto says, we were all “preserving the future of skiing’s past” in a most animated way, riding the Conway Scenic Railroad’s Valley Trains with the youngsters and giving them lessons on board.
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