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Duxbury Yacht Club
The Duxbury Yacht Club (DYC) is a private club located in Duxbury, Massachusetts that offers sailing, golf, tennis, paddle, swimming, and junior activities. It was founded in 1875 and was incorporated in 1895. The DYC is unique among yacht clubs in the United States because it is the only American yacht club to offer athletic recreation besides yachting and golf, and one of five American yacht clubs to offer athletic recreation besides yachting. It was among the first yacht clubs founded in the United States in the 19th century. Governance The DYC is governed by an Executive Committee, a Board of Directors, and Committee Chairs. The Executive Committee includes a Commodore, a Vice Commodore, a Rear Commodore, a Treasurer, a Secretary, and an Activities Chairperson. The Board of Directors include committee chairpersons, a former Commodore, and "generalists." Committee Chairs direct specific club activities and operations; e.g., finance, property, and entertainment. History The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duxbury, Massachusetts
Duxbury (alternative older spelling: "Duxborough") is a historic seaside town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb located on the South Shore (Massachusetts), South Shore approximately to the southeast of Boston, the population was 16,090 at the 2020 census. Geographic and demographic information on the specific parts of the town of Duxbury is available in the articles Duxbury (CDP), Massachusetts, Duxbury (CDP), Green Harbor, Massachusetts, Green Harbor, and South Duxbury, Massachusetts, South Duxbury. History The area now known as Duxbury was inhabited by people as early as 12,000 to 9,000 BCE. By the time European settlers arrived here, the region was inhabited by the Wampanoag (tribe), Wampanoags, who called this place Mattakeesett, meaning "place of many fish." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duxbury Bay
Duxbury Bay is a bay on the coast of Massachusetts in the United States. The west shore of the bay is the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts; and the bay is formed by a sandbar called Gurnet Point, Massachusetts, The Gurnet extending southeasterly from Marshfield, Massachusetts into Cape Cod Bay. The town of Marshfield was named for the estuarine wetland at the north end of the bay. The bay opens southerly toward Plymouth, Massachusetts between Captains Hill to the west and Saquish Head to the east. Navigation The bay is approximately three miles long from north to south with an average width of two miles. The bottom is mostly shallow sand and mud flats exposed at low water with a few winding channels. Several of these channels converge west of Clarks Island to form a small craft anchorage called the Cowyard approximately wide with a depth of . There is clearance under a fixed span in the Powder Point Bridge to access the northern end of the bay. In 1908 The United States Army Corp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Olsen (sailor)
C. Eric Olsen, Jr. (March 26, 1916 – May 7, 1993) was an American sailor. He competed in the 12m² Sharpie event at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Olsen was a member of the Duxbury Yacht Club The Duxbury Yacht Club (DYC) is a private club located in Duxbury, Massachusetts that offers sailing, golf, tennis, paddle, swimming, and junior activities. It was founded in 1875 and was incorporated in 1895. The DYC is unique among yacht clubs in ... in the 1940s and 1950s. References External links * 1916 births 1993 deaths American male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for the United States Sailors at the 1956 Summer Olympics – 12 m2 Sharpie Sportspeople from Brookline, Massachusetts {{US-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Gwynne
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne (July 10, 1926 – July 2, 1993) was an American actor, artist and author widely known for his roles in the 1960s television sitcoms ''Car 54, Where Are You?'' as Francis Muldoon and as Herman Munster in ''The Munsters'', as well as his later film roles in '' The Cotton Club'', ''Pet Sematary '' and ''My Cousin Vinny''. Early life Gwynne was born on July 10, 1926, in New York City, the son of Frederick Walker Gwynne (1884–1935), a partner in the securities firm Gwynne Brothers, and his wife Dorothy Ficken Gwynne, who, before her marriage, was a successful artist known for her " Sunny Jim" comic character."Gwynne family genealogy" Rootsweb.com. His paternal grandfather Walker Gwynne was an |
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