Conway Swimming Pool

Recreation--Mass.--Conway

File folder of clippings and other materials on the construction and dedication of the Conway Swimming Pool:
1) Pioneer Valley Association press release announcing civic improvement project contest (Jan. 17, 1951); 2) letter from Richard G. Hassell to Pioneer Valley Association, March 12, 1951, enclosing Conway Swimming Pool entry in civic improvement contest; 3) 1 page report from the Board of Trustees of the Conway Community Swimming Pool, Inc. on construction progress of pool (1951?); 4) copy of Richard Hassell's May 28, 1967 speech (handwritten, 10 pages) dedicating pool to Leon Germain; 5) 3 page transcription of article about the history of the pool (no date or information on publication); 6) 9" x 7" b/w photograph of Archibald MacLeish and Leon Germain at site of pool, c. 1950; 7) 4 b/w snapshots, 3 1/2" x 5", of excavation work on pool, c. 1949-50; 8) clipping from the Boston Sunday Globe, June 25, 1950; 9) clipping from the Boston Sunday Globe, July 2, 1950

Various

1950-1967

Gift of Richard Hassell.

CHS

CHS. Fair use.

jpeg (b/w photograph of Archibald MacLeish and Leon Germain at site of pool, c. 1950)

Image and text

CHS-1983-131

Conway, Mass.

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