Young and old folks in Strafford have always enjoyed having winter recreation and skiing. at the Lion's rope tow on Harrington Hill and elsewhere. Possibly the first in Strafford to really embrace the idea of skiing was Rosa Tyson. An avid outdoors person, Rosa according to her grandnephew Sherm Wilson likely took up skiing in the 1930s.

Building and maintaining the many miles of Strafford's roads has never been easy. Every annual Town Meeting from the first one held in Strafford in 1778, has had roads front and center on its agenda. Learn about the earliest days and ways of building and maintaining Strafford's highways and Gile Kendall and his four horse-drawn snow plow,