Book Excerpt Part 1 of Jack Heath’s Browning Ross: The Father of American Distance Running

Excerpt taken from Browning Ross: The Father of American Distance Running by Jack Heath and posted with permission from the author.

Part 1: Henry Wood, the Lenape, and the Colonel

Heath prefaces this excerpt from the first chapter of his book by saying: “Tolerance seems to be built into Woodbury’s DNA. I think because Woodbury’s history and of the history of Woodbury’s fascinating founding citizens, there is also a sense that anything is possible for people growing up in town.”

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