Category: Museum News

It was 75 years ago this December that Hannes Schneider assumed the reins of his ski school at Mount Cranmore in North Conway. Although he had arrived in the US in February 1939, he allowed his Austrian protégé Benno Rybizka to continue as ski school director for the remainder of… Read more“75 Years Ago at Mount Cranmore”

New England Ski Museum announces that it will fund $3,000 in grants to support individuals and organizations that align with the Museum’s mission to preserve the history of skiing and winter sports under its Cal Conniff Grant program in 2015. The program is named for former Museum board member Cal… Read more“Cal Conniff Grants from Ski Museum Available in 2015”

Killington founder Preston Leete Smith will be recognized for his ground-breaking contributions to the development of alpine skiing in New England and nationally at the resort he created from a trackless mountain on Saturday November 1, 2014. As the guest of honor at the New England Ski Museum’s annual meeting… Read more“Preston Leete Smith Award Dinner Approaches”

Seventy years after the first U.S. Army unit to be trained in mountain and winter warfare was on the verge of shipping out to the Italian front in World War II, their story will be told in the Warren Miller Productions film Climb To Glory at the Colonial Theater in… Read more“10th Mountain Division Film at the Colonial Theater”

Killington Resort founder Preston Leete Smith will become the 9th recipient of New England Ski Museum’s Spirit of Skiing Award at the museum’s annual meeting, to be held Saturday November 1, 2014 at the Grand Resort Hotel at Killington. The award celebrates a personality from the sport of skiing who… Read more“Preston Smith to be Honored with Spirit of Skiing Award”

The emergence in Vermont of skiing as a popular pastime and engine of winter economic growth is the topic of a new annual exhibition at the New England Ski Museum. The exhibit, Green Mountain, White Gold: Origins of Vermont Skiing, will officially open on May 30, 2014 with a reception… Read more“Origins of Vermont Skiing Featured at New England Ski Museum”

A record field of more than 300 skiers participated in the 6th Annual Bretton Woods Nordic Marathon to benefit the New England Ski Museum on March 8, 2014. With major support from sponsors including the Omni Mount Washington Resort, Audi of Stratham, Alpine Clinic and SWIX the event incorporated competitive,… Read more“2014 Bretton Woods Nordic Marathon: An event for the record books”

Beautiful spring-like weather, lively pop-up performances of the Bavarian Brothers Band, recognition of an engaged and witty 99-year-old ski industry and mountain troop veteran, and a panel discussion on the contributions of Harvey Dow Gibson to the town of Conway marked the successful Hannes Schneider Meister Cup last weekend in… Read more“2014 Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Review”

Seventy five years ago on February 11, 1939, Hannes Schneider and his family stepped off the Eastern Slope Express from New York City at the North Conway, New Hampshire train station, after a harrowing year in which Schneider had been under house arrest, and his family reviled in their hometown… Read more“Namesake of the Hannes Schneider Race Arrived 75 Years Ago”

The upcoming Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Race at Cranmore Mountain Resort will honor veterans and soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division a full 70 years after the division spent their second winter training in mountain and winter warfare at their Camp Hale, Colorado base. The event is a benefit alpine… Read more“Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Honors 10th Mountain Division”