Skip Harrison Archives - Mr. Local History Project https://mrlocalhistory.org/tag/skip-harrison/ History and Gossip from New Jersey Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:23:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/mrlocalhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-Mr-local-History-250-Logo-theme.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Skip Harrison Archives - Mr. Local History Project https://mrlocalhistory.org/tag/skip-harrison/ 32 32 168989768 The Sunfish Sailboat – Fortune Magazine’s Top 25 Best Designed Products Until China Stepped In https://mrlocalhistory.org/the-sunfish-sailboat-history/ https://mrlocalhistory.org/the-sunfish-sailboat-history/#respond Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:57:12 +0000 https://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=64520 Views: 4,060 Picture it: a warm afternoon on the water, a flash of colorful sail skimming across the waves. Chances are, it’s a Sunfish, the little boat that became a global phenomenon. By 1977, a year after OpSail in NYC honoring America’s Bicentennial, Fortune magazine declared the AMF Alcort Sunfish sailboat one of the “25… Read More »The Sunfish Sailboat – Fortune Magazine’s Top 25 Best Designed Products Until China Stepped In

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]]> https://mrlocalhistory.org/the-sunfish-sailboat-history/feed/ 0 64520 Pocono Boathouse History – A Lake Naomi Institution https://mrlocalhistory.org/the-pocono-boathouse/ https://mrlocalhistory.org/the-pocono-boathouse/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:25:51 +0000 https://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=59566 Views: 4,671 The First Pocono Boathouse The story of the Pocono Boathouse retail establishment begins when, in 1965, Frank and Carolyn Betz built a chalet on the north side of Lake Naomi and opened a small but ambitious boating business two years later, as there was no other place to purchase boating equipment. Nestled just… Read More »Pocono Boathouse History – A Lake Naomi Institution

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