The official opening of our new website and virtual research archives!
This has been in the works for more than a year and we have gone live with it today at
www.tillinghast.netWhat you will find here is far more than a different look, but rather a place where you can go and research Tilly and his work.
Each of the titled sections lead to a world of digitized information that all can finally have unfettered access to. For example, in the section titled "Authored by Tillinghast" you will be brought to a page listing every magazine, newspaper and journal that Tilly wrote for. Each heading then reproduces story after story, all properly dated and referenced, for the researcher to consult.
This is what is in "Authored by Tillinghast":
Read the prolific writings on the following subjects by A.W. Tillinghast:
The American Golfer
Editorial Notes
BCC Five Farms Letters
Cobble Valley Yarns
Country Club Life
Golf Illustrated
Golf Magazine
The Golf Course
Hazard
Humor of the Game
Our Green Committee
PGA Consulting Tour Letters
P.G.A. Magazine
Pacific Coast Golfer
Philadelphia Inquirer
Planning A Golf Course
Poetry
Letters
Other
The site is FAR from complete and we have a tremendous amount of content to upload. It will eventually contain everything Tilly wrote, photographs of every one of his original designs including those that no longer exist, family photos, photos taken by Tilly (he was an award-winning photographer), brief course histories of everyone of his designs. There is a section that will contain all known sketches of his even where the hole itself might not have been built, while another is dedicated to individual designs.
Special sections, such as the "Baltimore Country Club Letters" where all of the correspondence between Tilly & BCC during the design and building of 5 Farms is contained. The PGA Consultation Tour letters, more than 400 in total, will be reproduced and in addition, the never before seen reports that were sent along with them will soon be scanned and put on site.
Photographs of his personal trophies, antiques, family items... even the death certificates of he & his wife Lillian; this will be as complete and inclusive research library as we can possibly make it and it will be open to all.
Finally, we wanted to create a resource that his clubs and those architects who work at them can consult so that his work can be properly conserved for all to come.
Please fell very free to visit the site often, especially as we are adding content daily. Have fun and email us comments, good or bad, suggestions and anything else...
