Published by admin on Tue, 05/30/2023 - 11:03am
Watching children at play you frequently hear, “Bet I can climb this tree faster than you can!” or “Race you to the next corner!” I guess being the fastest kid on the block is a real feather in your cap.
But it's not just kids that do it. Just watch NASCAR and you can see that big boys do it too. In the 1880's Braidwood was full of big boys who wanted to be the fastest kid on the block. Let's look at a few.
Running races became the fad sometime in the late 1870's and by 1880's it had gotten serious, especially in the coal mining communities.