After integration, many cities in the South decided to just shut pools down rather than let Black people in, including Tallahassee. During the summers of 1964-1967, the city commission closed public ...

Meyers Lake froze over early. The roller coaster at the lakeside amusement park looked like an ice sculpture. The Canton Repository was delivered no matter how bad the blizzard. Its winter pages ...

The county pool, in particular, stands out as a modern, high-quality pool, serving a diverse community. But broader trends of segregation continued as white Lancastrians fled the city throughout the ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, April 14. THIS year's ongoing Olympic Flashback series continued with a refresher on swimming at the 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics Games. The in-depth feature appears in the ...

A map showing Withrow Springs State Park. HUNTSVILLE -- For 50 years, the swimming pool at Withrow Springs State Park has been the summer hangout for kids from Huntsville and surrounding towns. But ...

I was ruminating of late on the evolution of swimming and swimming speed a few days ago and then realized that my thoughts needed a basis of information to give them context. Hence the following chart ...