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May Time IV: Family Connections
“A Re-Echo Of Henley” by Fred May, 1922. 9 February 2023By Tim Koch After a three-year gap, Tim Koch produces two more parts of a series that is drawn-out in more ways than one. HTBS Types with good...
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Swedish Olympian Evert Gunnarsson Dies
The Swedish coxed four showing off their 1956 Olympic silver medals. From l to r: Evert Gunnarsson, Ivar Aronsson, Bertil Göransson, Gösta Eriksson and Olle Larsson. This was the second Olympic medal...
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Each Poem, A Boat
Walt Whitman from the frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855. 12 February 2023 By Philip Kuepper Why is it, just now,the number 55has grabbed hold my attention,and cause me thinkthe...
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RIP Raquel Welch
The Lady with the Whip – Raquel Welch. 16 February 2023 By Göran R Buckhorn Actress Raquel Welch died yesterday at age 82. No, Welch was not a rower, but some readers might remember that I wrote about...
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Steve O’Connor – New Director of RRM
Steve O’Connor giving a talk at the River & Rowing Museum. Among the audience (far left) are HTBS writers Tim Koch and on his right, Tom Weil. 17 February 2023 By Göran R Buckhorn Henley-based...
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Totally Thames 2023 Open Call
Totally Thames 2023 – “Climate Grief Karaoke” by Katy Dye. Image provided by Thames Festival Trust. 18 February 2023Between 1 and 31 September, Thames Festival Trust will once again organise the event...
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Preserving the History of Rowing, its People and Places
19 February 2023 The committee of the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta (HOSR) invites those interested in rowing history to a Zoom event on Thursday, February 23 – sign up now. In an invitation the HOSR...
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Collision Course
Harry A. Trask’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Andrea Doria minutes before she sank. Public domain. 20 February 2023 By Philip Kuepper Where radar failed,fog rose the victor,so deadly a victorwhen...
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May Time V
Fred May’s take on a few of those at Henley in 1925. 21 February 2023By Tim Koch Tim Koch continues to put flesh on the bones of Fred May’s caricatures. Bevan Charles Cox (1877 – 1946) Bevan Cox...
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A Trinity 1859 Tankard
22 February 2023By Duncan C. MacKinnon & Andrew Guerin The other day, HTBS received an email from Duncan C. MacKinnon, a member of Mercantile Rowing Club on the Yarra River, Melbourne. Duncan...
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Tickled Pink: A New Rowing History
In the Pink: A History of the Water at Westminster School by Christopher Seward is out now. To clarify the use of “the Water” in the title, in the argot of Westminster School, rowing is “Water” and...
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Poet at Play
26 February 2023 By Philip Kuepper A foot of water?Has anyone ever actually seena foot of water?Does a foot of water walk on water?Is that what a foot of water is for?If so,what kind of shoe does a...
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RCA Members Vote to Not Remove the Board
27 February 2023By Göran R BuckhornAt a Special Meeting last Wednesday, a majority of members of Rowing Canada Aviron (RCA) voted against the motion to remove the RCA Board.HTBS wrote on 23 January...
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HOSR Story Hour: Preserving Rowing History
28 February 2023By Göran R BuckhornLast Thursday, 23 February, the Zoom event “Preserving the History of Rowing, its People and Places” was organised by the committee of the Head of the Schuylkill...
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Rowing Trip to Sweden
Photo: Lidingö Roddklubb 1 March 2023Rowing The World announced yesterday that among the 2023 rowing trips is a trip to Stockholm and its beautiful Archipelago. Founder and President of Rowing The...
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The Greatest Rowing Stories
A new rowing book is coming out in October 2023. Several of HTBS’s writers will have pieces published in this anthology published by Lyons Press. 2 March 2023By Göran R BuckhornHTBS editor Göran...
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May Time VI: The Man Who Put Duluth On The Map
US sculler Walter Hoover from Duluth, Minnesota, received one of the great honours of the inter-war period – appearing on cards given away in cigarette packets. 3 March 2023By Tim Koch Tim Koch gives...
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At the Falls of Ills
(For Ingrid) 5 March 2023 By Philip Kuepper Each life can be definedby how one rows,by how one uses the oars at hand.Ills fall, undeserved,on one. COVID creeps up,comes neck and neck, in the...
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B. H. Howell: The Diamonds Winner in 1898 and 1899
Benjamin Hunting Howell, a Yank in the colours of Thames Rowing Club, 1899. 6 March 2023By Göran R Buckhorn Göran Buckhorn counts some U.S. scullers winning the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley...
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