GLOVER – Glover Day will be held July 26. The annual tradition includes a foot race commemorating the town’s claim to fame, Runaway Pond. Bread and Puppet will perform the famous puppet show “Runaway Pond” and welcome runners as they enter the Glover Green. There will be a food truck, petting zoo, children’s games, face painting, live local music including the Dixieland Jazz Band and the Hill Farmstead Brewery beer tent. Eighth-grade students sponsor a duck race on the river to support their class trip and there will be an auction at the Glover Church. A chicken barbecue lunch is hosted by the local fire department who will dedicate a new fire truck.
Many people know the story of how, in 1810, Glover townspeople were experiencing drought, and so they decided to cut a channel from Long Pond (located between Glover and Greensboro) to the Barton River to bring more water to the mills in Glover. What they didn’t know was that most of the bank was quicksand, and soon after breaking through the bank, and the thin layer of soil that held the water in, the bank gave way emptying the entire lake into the valley. A man by the name of Spencer Chamberlain took off running to warn the miller’s wife of the coming water. His race against the water saved lives that day, and the Glover Day foot race follows that historic journey, North on what Rte. 16 is today, and back to Glover Green.
The annual Tour de Glover bike ride consists of a 12.6 mile trek across a wide variety of terrain. Runners and walkers, line up for one of the other races offered: a 5K Race (line up at town shed) and a 5.5 mile Run-Chamberlain-Run walk-run option (starting at the Landmark). For children 12 and under there is a 2K Race beginning at 10 a.m. Other races start at 9 a.m. For more on the races, times and registration visit gloverambulance.org/gloverday or sign up on the day of the races from 7 to 8:15 a.m.
