Category: Oral History
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’78 blizzard couldn’t freeze the focus at the Beanpot
You have to hand it to the hockey players who lived through the historic Beanpot blizzard. Even when history unrelated to game action seized the spotlight, it could not induce brain freeze to the student-athletes itching for action inside. Surely they were mindful of any reports that caught their ear before they entered the Boston Garden for…
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NWHL’s Alex Carpenter on processing 9/11 at age 7
According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2011, 97 percent of Americans age 8 or older on Sept. 11, 2001 remember where they were and what they were doing at the time of the attacks. Alex Carpenter, a 2014 U.S. Olympian and the 2015 winner of the Patty Kazmaier Award as…