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| Jim Storie and Tony Smith |
Dinner with Jim and Nancy Storie
There are a lot of crew stories swapped by Mowglis around the campfire and lately on Zoom but few are more widely remembered than the crew race of 1973 when a very small Red Racing crew was pitted against a crew of the biggest boys that most of us had seen in the Den and Panther on the Blue Racing crew. It was the biggest upset that anyone could remember. But as always, the moment that the oar went up the flag pole it was over and the Mowglis brothers gathered arm in arm to sing the Mowglis boating song.
Jim Storie was the crew coach that year, his only year at Mowglis. Yet he is fondly remembered to this day and he has very fond memories himself of that summer. Jim came back to New Hampshire that same winter and was a part of the all Mowglis winter assault on Mt Washington. I've put some photos from that trip that Jim had on slides up on the show notes page at MowglisMemories.blogspot.com .
In late January I stopped in Richmond on my cross country trip with my pal Boof the Siberian Husky and visited with Jim and his wife Nancy. I met Jim at "the Alley House", a building he is remodeling in Richmond center.
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| Jim at the Alley House |
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| Jim with President Nixon |
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| The Alley House |
We recorded this podcast over dinner before Boof and I hit the road headed home to New Hampshire.
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| Wayne & Jim |
The Mowglis Winter Assault on Mt Washington January 1974
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| Andy Popinchalk |
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| Paul Brown & Jim Westberg |
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| Jim Boicourt (center) |
Original Art by Wayne King
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