The boys said they snatched a couple of boards from a Fairfield construction site and, with one boy holding a water-ski tow rope at a central point as a guide, stomped on the boards in a circular pattern in the wee hours of June 28.
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Ski Venture and Greylock were both built in the 1930s largely by engineers at the General Electric plants in Schenectady and Pittsfield, Mass . These early enthusiasts had the ability to design and build ski tows and the desire to carve trails out of timbered mountainsides, Merselis noted.
