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Locust Valley Matinecock crew (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  Published in Locust Valley, by Joan Harrison, Amy Dzija Driscoll. Arcadia Publishing, 2012 books.google.com/books?id=rS3GP0GAtXQC&pg=PA102&l... which indicates that bobsledding was an active pastime in Locust Valley.

• swanq said:

  The sun. (New York [N.Y.]), 06 Feb. 1916. Second Section, Sporting and Automobiles, Page 12 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1916-02-06/ed-... reports that "thousands of residents of Nassau County were at Locust Valley this afternoon for the annual bobsled races, which are a feature of winter life on Long Island." "The Matinicock entry, composed of twenty-five women, many of whom are prominent in society in Oyster Bay and Locust Valley, finished in third place.

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thank you for your research on Locust Valley winter sports, swanq. We'll add some of the information to each of the records the next time we update.

• EmBeesWeb said:

  This looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

• B-59 said:

  This photo was released in The Sunday Oregonian, February 27, 1916, SECTION FIVE, Image 67 with the caption: "Annually the Long Islanders about Huntington and Oyster Bay have a bobsled contest, in which teams or women race with teams of men. The contest was hold this year at Locust Valley and the "Locust Valley 1911" Team was successful. The Matinecock team of women came in third." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1916-02-27/ed-1/se...