Category: NEBCA History

• 30+ Years of NEBCA Calendars

  The calendar has been a regular and appreciated part of the club for much of it’s history. Each year, the calendar committee solicits photos and artwork from the members and assembles, prints and sells calendars to members or anyone who appreciates working Border Collies. The black & white month photos and the hand drawn sketches…

• The First Sheepdog Trial in North America

  The attached document is from the November 1929 Purdue Agriculturalist publication. Whether first or not, who would have guessed a sheepdog trial was held so long ago, let alone in Bennington, Vermont. Interestingly, one of the competitors, Preston Davenport, who passed away in 1983, was an early NEBCA member.

• Four Great Friends of NEBCA and the Border Collie

  This photo was taken at the Scottish Games in Queechee Vermont which hosted a popular sheepdog trial for many years. It originally appeared in the 2004 NEBCA News. Photographer unknown. These four individuals were instrumental in spreading the use of working Border Collies throughout the Northeast. All were active trialers, with their involvement dating back…

• Past NEBCA Officers

  The table below lists the officers and members of the two trial committees from 1983 to the present. Notes:

• NEBCA Beginnings

  This article by Betty Levin first appeared in the 2009 NEBCA Newsletter. Betty was part of the Northeast Border Collie community from the 60s. She shepherded a flock of Border Leicester and Scottish Blackface sheep, bred and trained her own Border Collies, competed in sheepdog trials, and was a formative and valued member of NEBCA.…

• Skowhegan Fair Sheepdog Trial in 1978

  An article from the Bangor Daily News on the first sheepdog trial at the Skowhegan Fair (from Google news archive). And some of the results from a separate article.