Posted: 05/2/10 at 4:24pm | IP Logged

just recieved a disturbing e-mail but in todays troubled economy-sometimes the small suffer...so not just 2009 will there be no WMHG but never again..it has been my honor to be associated with these games for the last few years and hope to serve you all on the field again..dWood WMHG AD

Wendy Dunphy <wldunphy@charter.net>
To:	Dan Wood <Hgames512@aol.com>; 'Anne Donlan' <ldonlan@nycap.rr.com>; Gordie Peters <gpeters1@nycap.rr.com>; Helen Harlow <harlow59@msn.com>; C Murdoch <ccmurdoch@att.net>; Lezlie and Gordon Webster <nhssa@comcast.net>; 'norman mcleod' <nmcleod12@gmail.com>; 'patricia nisco' <drm-maj@msn.com>
Subject:	Western Mass HG
Date:	Fri, Feb 5, 2010 6:16 pm

Posted: 05/2/10 at 4:42pm | IP Logged

That's a shame.  It was such a fun games.  Good memories!

Posted: 05/2/10 at 8:10pm | IP Logged

Without a doubt my 2 best memories from those games are in the same year.....

dry dry June and the ground is flaky no one can dig their spikes in for a decent hammer toss and this games being the "New England Hammer Championships" I try to help the atheltes in finding a spot they can get spikes in..well my best friend Dr Bill finds  a spot in the corner that offers good grip we move the trig and get set ..we notice a utilty wire about 80 feet downfield that seperates the field-but be that we are throwing the heavy hammer we say go for it..Terri james up 1st in flight launches a bomb looks like the bomb of all bombs but at 80 feet wraps around the wire twice and gos backawards for a net gain of 79-9..she is PO'd at Dr BIll for picking this spot and negatting "her bomb" at immortality..takes it in stride...the men and masters come up and lo and behold Dr Bill unlaunches a bomb but it happens to go atray and hit a light box that the utility wire is connected to-shorting out not only the field/fairgrounds but half of downtown  westfield mass...word has it that the national guard was called out and they had to prevent downtown Westfield from hourdes of locusts,general anarchy,and total daubechery  caused by one errant hammer toss!!

Posted: 06/2/10 at 4:19pm | IP Logged

Tough games to loose. I enjoyed the few times I went-a games that featured both stone, both hammers, no sheaf and no spin. Enjoy these smaller games while they last folks.

Thanks for your efforts Danny.

Posted: 10/2/10 at 6:32am | IP Logged

Off topic, but I think Pipes in the Valley would make a good venue for a Highlander type event.  Big crowds and a pretty small space, just a hint, I mean thought.