With Chicago’s recent failure to become host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics, we here at Peeling Back the Bark were reminded of a little-known chapter from Chicago’s sports history which can be found in the FHS Archives. Should Chicago have also submitted a bid for the Winter Olympiad? Possibly. We submit for your consideration [...]
Archive for October, 2009
When Timber Engineers Brought Ski Jumping to Chicago
Posted in From the Archives, tagged Chicago, forest products, Soldier Field, sports history, TECO, wood construction on October 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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- Babe the Grey Elephant, Indian cousin of Paul Bunyan’s ox. Featured Photo: http://ow.ly/E8nV | Published: 2 days ago
- The presentation made by Roderick Nash, our 2009 Lynn W. Day lecturer, covered on Huffington Post: http://bit.ly/26aAmb | Published: 4 days ago
- On this date: 11/17/1844 Elihu Stewart born. Founder of Canadian Forestry Assc & early head of Canadian Forest Service http://bit.ly/34x9BI | Published: 5 days ago
- Drive-thru, 1920 style. Car tunnel through giant red cedar tree stump. Featured Photo: http://ow.ly/za6p | Published: 2 weeks ago
- The Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in NC celebrates 75 years of influential forest watershed research: http://wp.me/piGxC-G8 | Published: 2 weeks ago
