Here's your Sunday jigsaw: Hanover Boat Association outing, 1889
To the right is the stalwart Ledyard Free Bridge, built 30 years before. By 1913, it carried more traffic than any other one of the twenty-nine bridges on the Connecticut River north of Massachusetts. It was replaced by a steel bridge in 1934, the precursor to today's bridge, completed in 1999.
It’s interesting to take in the details: women in long dresses with hats and parasols, men in a mix of three-piece suits and more relaxed outfits—many with straw “boater” hats—and a crowd of spectators gathered along the far bank.
Cameron Cross
The Curioustorian
I’m shocked by the seeming height of the “sand bank”. Is that an optical illusion or has it been worn away by time and grading?
Brave women that would climb into a small boat like that dressed in those overflowing dresses.
I would never get into one of those boats even today. I am a good swimmer, I just don't like
small boats that rock from side to side.