With a blanket of snow covering the old racecourse, reminding us that the 124th Boston Marathon is currently in a deep freeze till September 14th – God… Read more “BOSTON WEATHER: RUNNERS DIGEST MONTAGE”
Tag: John J. Kelley
JOCK SEMPLE – BOSTON’S HEART & SOUL
To say that his office was tucked away in the labyrinth of the old Boston Garden is to understate the quest to find it. Yet to say… Read more “JOCK SEMPLE – BOSTON’S HEART & SOUL”
FORTY YEARS AGO ON NEW YEAR’S DAY
As 2015 slides into 2016, we offer a New Year’s story written by guest blogger Bob Hodge, a Lowell, Mass native who was a charter member of… Read more “FORTY YEARS AGO ON NEW YEAR’S DAY”
STATUE DEDICATION FOR JOHN J. KELLEY
He didn’t finish his first Boston Marathon in 1949, but over the next two decades Connecticut’s John J. Kelley would become the face of American marathoning at… Read more “STATUE DEDICATION FOR JOHN J. KELLEY”
“YOUNG JOHN” & THE 2011 AFC HALF MARATHON
The great wheel turns, and thus are we all ground into dust. Such is the Rib-Taker’s design, and so must we all be delivered. I just returned home… Read more ““YOUNG JOHN” & THE 2011 AFC HALF MARATHON”