With a research trip to Cambridge, Mass. on the agenda for next week, I thought I'd look into the possibility of visiting the site of Constance Applebee's first demonstration of field hockey in the United States. The consensus of all the accounts I have read is that the demonstration took place in a courtyard behind the Hemenway gymnasium at Harvard University in the summer of 1901. A quick look at a current Harvard campus map revealed the good news: there is still a building called the Hemenway Gymnasium in the north yard of the Harvard campus. A quick click on the "details" tab of the map revealed the bad news: it was built in 1940.
Chronicling the process of researching and writing about the early history of college field hockey in the United States.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Filling in a minor detail
In the absence of any living witnesses to Constance Applebee's introduction of field hockey to the United States in 1901, I find myself compulsively searching for as many contemporary accounts as I can possibly find. Sometimes I'm looking for specific facts, but other times I'm just blindly fishing in the hope that I'll come across something I didn't know before.
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