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Bushnell has had little training as an inventor. Reared on a farm near Saybrook, he was 30 before he could raise the money to enter Yale. He enrolled as a divinity student, but his chief interest was in natural philosophy and mechanics. He learned that Dutch Engineer Cornelius van Drebbel had devised a "sinkable boat" in the 1620s, and after his graduation last year, he finished building a similar craft on secluded Poverty Island in the Connecticut River...
...other tackle football games, Mather and Trumbull-Saybrook fought to a scoreless tie and Eliot shut out J. Edwards-Branford. Leverett and Lowell were being strangled 15-0 and 24-0 respectively, and Winthrop battled its Eli opponent...
Eliot House captured the soccer crown Friday by a 3-1 victory over Saybrook College, which had shut out its last six opponents. Tim Lodge scored first for Eliot on a shot which barely rolled through the puddles and over the goal line. Saybrook tied it in the second quarter after Eliot had substituted for most of its starters...
...third quarter, Dave Evans drilled a shot past the helpless goalie after a scramble in front of the Saybrook net. John Horan tallied an insurance goal as his kick bounced off a Saybrook fullback and slid between the goalie's legs...
...Saybrook boats sit lazily in a sheltered marina while ducks congregate on a small sand island. The tracks open up onto a large body of water, where a group of three men sit quietly in a rowboat, their fishing poles resting on the sides of the boat. A sign at the entrance to Pawtucket, Conn. announces that it is "A Good Place to Live, Work, or Play." A woman walks into Ted's laundromat. A passing truck hauls steel canoes...