Brookline Ski Area, Brookline N.H. — c. 1960s

A vintage Brookline Ski Area patch, estimated to date from the 1960s, featuring a skier in a red sweater and yellow vest caught in a full-tilt turn, with two spruces standing guard over a blue-and-white mountain. BROOKLINE, H. arched across the top, SKI AREA in gold below. A wide navy shield with a gold border.

Brookline sold lift tickets for almost half a century. In 1962 Arthur DeRosa added a T-bar and eight new trails, and business went up about forty percent. A second T-bar was planned. It never came. The vertical was about 600 feet, enough to teach a town to ski.

In 1976 the snowmaking system burned, and the area fell behind on its property taxes through the rest of the decade. Two new names and several owners later, it closed for good after the 1983–84 season.

The skier here is going faster than 600 feet of vertical ever let anyone go. That's what patches were for.

Embroidered on twill, merrowed edge, fraying at right. Photos are the condition report.