Author: New England Ski Museum (Jeffrey R. Leich),
Title: Journal of the New England Ski Museum: issue no. 76 Winter 2010 & 77 spring 2010.
Description: Franconia, NH, New England Ski Museum, (2010). 2 VG lg sz PBs. Nordic Skiing from Stone Age to Skating (parts 2 & 3) by Jeffrey R. Leich. Also article on Sweden's Baron Nils. Nordenskiold who explored Greenland in 1883, 5 yrs before Fridtjof Nansen's famed crossing of the lower third of the island-continent. 57 hours later they had explored had covered 280 miles and found no vegetation, just endless snow. Nansen felt the Baron's pace could not have been possible so a race was organized. Also memorials to Jerry Nunn and Toni Sailor.

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