Brookline Ski Area, Triangle — c. 1960s

A vintage Brookline Ski Area patch, estimated to date from the 1960s, built around a white tipi with a blue B and a line of stick figures on single skis drawn in feathered headdresses. A woven triangle, blue field, red and gold border, BROOKLINE SKI AREA H. in gold along the bottom. Listed as a record of what the area put on its merchandise, not as an endorsement of it.

The figures are a caricature of Native dress, common on mid-century souvenirs and not something anyone would draw now. We're listing it as the record it is.

Brookline skied on Potanipo Hill, just over the Massachusetts line, from the winter of 1935–36, when a gas-powered rope tow made it one of the first lift-served ski areas in New England. It added a T-bar in 1962, became Big Bear in 1973 and Musket Mountain in 1982, and closed after the 1983–84 season. Vertical was about 600 feet, plenty for a weekend out of Nashua or Lowell.

Since 1996 the old slopes have held the Andres Institute of Art. Dozens of sculptures stand where the trails were. Art on the old fall line.

Woven, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.