Local news covers winter program about lost ski areas' history

Program committee chair Skip Flanders and society president Cheryl Casey filled in for scheduled speaker Brian Lindner to present the winter program about local ski history, The Lost Ski Areas of Waterbury, as part of Waterbury Winterfest's events. Waterbury Roundabout correspondent Gwenna Peters was there to dig up this piece of hidden history:

Historical society members pinch hit on ski history talk

Visiting skiers arrive by train and bus to ski the local slopes. Image c. 1940 from WHS archives.

Skip Flanders talks about one of Waterbury's lost ski tows.

Cheryl Casey introduces the evening's program.

Newspapers Like the Waterbury Record often reported on ski tourism and conditions.

Skip Flanders and Cheryl Casey with vintage skis from the society's collection.