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A glimpse into 19thc life: the Seven Sisters

  Ahh, Labor Day weekend.  The last gasp of summer leisure.  ALL of the children going back to school.  Parents have been kissing college freshmen goodbye and returning to quieter homes (mostly).  It’s the first weekend of college football, too, when many of us ransack our closets for those college colors to wear, either in front of the(…)

19th Century Women’s Basketball

The game of basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith for the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Massachusetts.   In 1892, Senda Berenson Abbott started the first women’s basketball program at Smith College, making modifications to the rules for women’s play. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike