| From ClassBrain.com Labor Day
Way up north in Nome, Alaska, there are two unusual racing events. One is the annual Great Bathtub Race, in which four contestants push bathtubs on wheels — full of water — and containing a fifth team member. Over at the power plant, spectators will be watching as thousands of plastic ducks arrive on the river, having negotiated miles of twists and turns in the annual Snake River Duck Race. These events will be the last summer fling for Nome’s 35-hundred residents, part of Alaska’s population of 627-thousand. © Copyright 2004 by ClassBrain.com |
