Students and staff from the Conway and Pine Tree Elementary Schools walk under the arch of raised ski pole in Schouler Park as part of the Schneider re-enactment and learning projects in North Conway on Tuesday. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Conway Elementary School teacher Steve Bamsey takes a photo of student Kris Fisher by the New England Ski Museum sign while in North Conway on Tuesday for the Schneider re-enactment events. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Pine Tree School students watch as their pipe-cleaner skiers and snowboarders race down a slope in the North Conway Country Club as part of the "In Memory of Martha" learning projects in North Conway on Tuesday. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Former Olympian Tyler Palmer talks to a group of Conway Elementary School students on Tuesday, with fellow speaker Tyler Ray of the Granite Backcountry Alliance on the left, in the North Conway Community Center as part of the "In Memory of Martha" learning projects in North Conway. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Re-enactors (from left) Tom Eastman as Benno Rybizka, Christoph Schneider as his grandfather Hannes Schneider and George Cleveland as Harvey Dow Gibson walk under the arch of raised ski pole in Schouler Park on Tuesday. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Students and staff from the Conway and Pine Tree Elementary Schools walk under the arch of raised ski pole in Schouler Park as part of the Schneider re-enactment and learning projects in North Conway on Tuesday. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Conway Elementary School teacher Steve Bamsey takes a photo of student Kris Fisher by the New England Ski Museum sign while in North Conway on Tuesday for the Schneider re-enactment events. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Pine Tree School students watch as their pipe-cleaner skiers and snowboarders race down a slope in the North Conway Country Club as part of the "In Memory of Martha" learning projects in North Conway on Tuesday. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Former Olympian Tyler Palmer talks to a group of Conway Elementary School students on Tuesday, with fellow speaker Tyler Ray of the Granite Backcountry Alliance on the left, in the North Conway Community Center as part of the "In Memory of Martha" learning projects in North Conway. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Re-enactors (from left) Tom Eastman as Benno Rybizka, Christoph Schneider as his grandfather Hannes Schneider and George Cleveland as Harvey Dow Gibson walk under the arch of raised ski pole in Schouler Park on Tuesday. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
CONWAY — On Tuesday, a trainload of fourth-graders and a few fifth-graders participated in the re-enactment of Austrian skimeister Hannes Schneider and family’s arrival at the North Conway Train Station on Feb. 11, 1939.
The event was underwritten by the New England Ski Museum.
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