Feats
The first person known to swim the length of the Lake was Helen Tobey, 17, who, in 1910, swam from Turner’s to Gibson’s (about 1 and a half miles) in 70 minutes.
Helen Humphries was the first to swim the length of the lake from Miami Beach to Gibson’s (about 2 miles). She did it in 1928 in 70 minutes.
Michael Danek of Westfield, Massachusetts caught a State record Northern Pike in January 1987; it weighed 32 pounds, 4 ounces.
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“One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.”
—Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)
“Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.”
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