Here is a fun pick-me-up story. Joe McHugh of Westfield, Maine walked from Maine to Boston for charity. What makes the story even more inspiring is that he did so recently with three friends – and their fathers did the same walk in 1973. The walk in 1973 raised money for the Jimmy Fund and the Dana-Farber center for cancer research. The current walk was intended to raise money for the same causes, and had already raised more than $20,000 when they started walking.
In 1973, it all started because David McHugh, now 85, had a hernia operation and was told to walk more. He decided that if he was going to start walking, he would do so for charity. Together with three friends, they walked from Maine to Fenway Park in four days while raising $18,000 for Dana Farber and the Jimmy Fund.
Certainly, their children are hoping to double what the dads raised all those years ago.