50 years ago, the Boston Marathon was already almost 70 years old. For the April 1965 Long Distance Log, Robert Sullivan took a look further even back, to the story on the very first marathon from the 1897 Boston Transcript:
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Bonus #tbt – The first charity marathon (in 1909). This and more in Idle Feet Do the Devil’s Work!
Now, back to 1897:
