Chronicle - The Way We Were

DateFebruary 16 1990

Can DescriptionsAircheck

AbstractThe Way We Were; Music, Memories, and More: Norumbega Park; history of the gathering place where Totem Pole ballroom musicians played and the rich and famous danced; located near Newton on the Charles River; founded in 1897; couples out in canoes for "canoedling" was what young people did before going out alone in cars; then the Totem Pole burned to the ground and the meeting place was closed; a memorial ceremony of a submarine that sank, near the Isles of Shoals, is revisited; preview for a special on the legacy of the Kennedy family;

OtherIn the studio Mary Richardson, Peter Mehegan, Kathy Bickimer, Clint Conley, Bob Comiskey, Alice Daly, Art Donahue, Don Mitchell, Bob Hakkila, Joe Mozdiez, Alan Pratt, Ron Sapp, Norumbega Park, Charles River Watershed Assoc., Jack Cryan, The Jackson Homestead, Newton Free Library, Charles River Museum of Industry, Anna Anna Caldwell, Harry Paul, Norton D. Clark, Bob Bachelder, George King, Jr., Myron Wolf, Neil McAuliffe, Robert Hawes, Neil Kiernan, Squalus, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Command Museum, Jim Dolph, Tom Pettengill, Russell Van Billiard, U.S.S. Albacore Park, Leon & Co., Ava Botelle, closed caption funding by Dunkin' Donuts;