Dick Garver, our club historian, writes;
“By 1869, the year Riverside Boat Club was formed, there were
approximately ninety American rowing clubs, club memberships were
booming, sixty-five regattas were held throughout the country, and
racing for prizes was attracting widespread interest. Rowing was on its
way to becoming America’s most popular spectator sport.”
And so Dick takes us through the history of Riverside Boat Club and the
evolving sport of rowing in this most interesting book about the evolution of
RBC from an immigrant neighborhood, workingman's association, through
hard times, to today's thriving organization origins of RBC.