Saturday, July 27
• Forty years after the Volvo International Tennis Tournament left the Mount Washington Valley, locals remember the tournament that brought top tennis players like Jimmy Connors, Ilie Nastase and Ivan Lendl to the courts at Cranmore Mountain from 1975-84.
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