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General Category => Other Sports => Topic started by: David Harding on October 08, 2014, 07:53:33 PM

Title: Big Red Pumpkin Regatta
Post by: David Harding on October 08, 2014, 07:53:33 PM
I'll claim that this is a non-hockey sport, however marginal:  Big Red Pumpkin Regatta (http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/10/tradition-born-big-red-pumpkin-regatta)  
Pre-race story. (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/09/big-red-pumpkin-regatta-oct-4-buoys-attention)
Cornell Sun (http://cornellsun.com/blog/2014/10/07/at-big-red-regatta-competitors-race-in-pumpkins/)
Does anyone else remember the Spring Weekend boat races on Beebe Lake back in the day?
Title: Re: Big Red Pumpkin Regatta
Post by: Robb on October 11, 2014, 01:38:37 AM
May as well take the opportunity to remember my great uncle Bernard Potter '43, former trustee and director of the NY State Fair.  One of the many things he enjoyed in retirement was growing giant pumpkins - he's one of the growers featured in Lords of the Gourd (https://archive.org/details/LordsOfTheGourdThePursuitOfExcellence).
Title: Re: Big Red Pumpkin Regatta
Post by: billhoward on October 13, 2014, 12:08:31 AM
Quote from: RobbMay as well take the opportunity to remember my great uncle Bernard Potter '43, former trustee and director of the NY State Fair.  One of the many things he enjoyed in retirement was growing giant pumpkins - he's one of the growers featured in Lords of the Gourd (https://archive.org/details/LordsOfTheGourdThePursuitOfExcellence).
Was he a suspect in the Uris Library caper?