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Widow continues Maine jog as part of worldwide journey
by Outspoken on Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:42 am
Widow continues Maine jog as part of worldwide journey
By Bill Trotter
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
NEAR MARION TOWNSHIP - Rosie Swale-Pope talks a lot faster than she runs.
Which is understandable.
As she trots down the road, she tows behind her a special trailer loaded with all her supplies, and she has gone two-thirds of the way around the planet doing so. At 61 years old, it makes sense that she’s not going at a full sprint.
Recently, she had traveled only about 100 miles since being interviewed by the Bangor Daily News in Belfast two weeks before. Braving the cold jogging on Route 191 in Unorganized Territory north of East Machias, she was on her way to Nova Scotia, Greenland and eventually back home to the United Kingdom. She took a break to answer a passing reporter’s questions, and to take a few minutes’ refuge from the cold in a car.
Sitting in the passenger seat, she took off her multiple layers of hats and, being well-practiced at her spiel, rattled off information in rapid-fire fashion. A resident of Tenby, Wales, she has been on the journey for more than four years and is doing it to bring attention to cancer, the prostate variety of which killed her husband a few years ago.
"It’s my small contribution," she said. "If I were weeding my garden, you wouldn’t have come to talk to me."
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=157992&zoneid=500
By Bill Trotter
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
NEAR MARION TOWNSHIP - Rosie Swale-Pope talks a lot faster than she runs.
Which is understandable.
As she trots down the road, she tows behind her a special trailer loaded with all her supplies, and she has gone two-thirds of the way around the planet doing so. At 61 years old, it makes sense that she’s not going at a full sprint.
Recently, she had traveled only about 100 miles since being interviewed by the Bangor Daily News in Belfast two weeks before. Braving the cold jogging on Route 191 in Unorganized Territory north of East Machias, she was on her way to Nova Scotia, Greenland and eventually back home to the United Kingdom. She took a break to answer a passing reporter’s questions, and to take a few minutes’ refuge from the cold in a car.
Sitting in the passenger seat, she took off her multiple layers of hats and, being well-practiced at her spiel, rattled off information in rapid-fire fashion. A resident of Tenby, Wales, she has been on the journey for more than four years and is doing it to bring attention to cancer, the prostate variety of which killed her husband a few years ago.
"It’s my small contribution," she said. "If I were weeding my garden, you wouldn’t have come to talk to me."
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=157992&zoneid=500
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
Plato (427-347 BC)
Plato (427-347 BC)
