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We Just Want To Weave and Fold Some Asbestos
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Well, weren’t we surprised to learn that there was once a company that began with the bold and (eventually) regrettable name of The Asbestos Spinning & Weaving Corporation. We were even more surprised to find out that, in some way, it still existed when we first posted this. The Asbestos Spinning and Weaving Corporation…
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The Value of the Telephone (and of Miss Worth)
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Now that we live in a time when it appears that most people feel the need to be engaged in telephone conversations at all moments of the day – while driving a car, while conducting a transaction, while going to the bathroom – it’s perhaps hard for some to imagine that there was a…
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Finding Ethelda Bleibtrey
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More from the 1952 Knickerbocker News article on Waterford native and Olympic swimming medalist Ethelda Bleibtrey, which we started yesterday: Although the younger generation may not have heard of Ethelda Bleibtrey, the preceding generation knew of the young lady’s remarkable swimming exploits, though it may have forgotten about her down through the years .…
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More on Ethelda Bleibtrey
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The Knickerbocker News of July 30, 1952, had an article by Julius J. Heller reminding readers of the important career of championship swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Ethelda Bleibtrey, who was born in and grew up in Waterford. When a slim, 16-year-old [sic: she was 18] girl plunged into the water at Antwerp, Belgium,…
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Waterford’s Own Ethelda Bleibtrey
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I couldn’t count how many times I must have biked past this historical marker in the park at the end of the Troy-Waterford bridge without ever noticing it until a few weeks ago. Maybe a construction detour that forced me onto the sidewalk made the difference. In any event, it was the very first…