Annual Contest of the New-York Yacht Club. The Ianthe, Peerless, Gracie and Vixen the Winners--Two Hundred off Sandy Hook in a Leaky Steamer. Share full article. June 21, 1872.

A humorous story with political undertones, "Girl Meets Boy" is a modern-day interpretation of the gender-bending myth of Iphis and Ianthe, two star-crossed lovers who cannot marry because they ...