The Northfield Snowmobilers, Inc. was organized in November 1972 out of the necessity to preserve and promote safe snowmobiling in the Northfield-Roxbury area. N.S.I’s initial year created a record of solid accomplishment. The club organized with a charter year membership of seventy-five. Committees were enrolled for standard administrative and functional procedures of the club. Existing trail systems were groomed and relocated when necessary. Informational meetings were conducted for the benefit of both landowners and snowmobilers. Several club socials were conducted. Trail riding was organized and well attended. Fund raising projects were completed with a pair of racing events headlining the moneymakers. Elections and banquets were held annually. A newsletter highlighting club activities and undertakings was initiated and circulated among club members and participating landowners Membership increased every year. During the Winter of 1974, a club organized Ride-In raised nearly twenty-five hundred dollars which was donated toward the initial construction of the new Mayo Nursing Home. Club fundraisers during several ensuing years and during the annual Labor Day Event benefited the Northfield Memorial Playground and several other local activities. During August 1982, the Edward G. Ritzer Memorial Gazebo was dedicated, after being designed , built, and funded by N.S.I. Located as the centerpiece of a total restoration of the Cresent area, the Gazebo was named for and dedicated to Edward G.Ritzer, a founder and first President of N.S.I. The structure has now become the property of Norwich University and has become the centerpiece of community activity in the Crescent area. In early 1998, N.S.I. trails suffered greatly as the result of a massive ice storm. Nearly one thousand man-hours by about forty N.S.I. members was necessary to clear much of the clubs’ trails of ice-ladened debris. The cost of this disaster was in the thousands of dollars. Club trails were reopened to snowmobilers, groomed and ready, in about a week. During its’ thirty-five year run, N.S.I. has grown to over two hundred members, continued to update its’ grooming equipment, conducted snowmobile training programs, raised funds for club activities, and continued its’ quest to be a responsible contributing entity to the snowmobiling community.