Berkshire Eagle March 15, 2025
Do you miss the Josh Billings RunAground afterparty at Tanglewood? It’s coming back after a six-year hiatus. berkshireeagle.com. Click on the image below for the full article (PDF)
The 2025 Josh Billings Runaground – Press Release
2025 Press Release : A return to tradition is coming to the Great Josh Billings RunAground in 2025. The iconic Main Gate of Tanglewood will be the finish line for this 48th annual race on Sunday, September 14, 2025. The Josh Billings Race Committee is grateful and excited to reunite with our longtime partners at […]
Gige Darey 8/11/16, told by Patty Spector
Gige Darey was one of the original Josh paddlers back in September 1977. I met with him to talk about that first day. He remembers it as being a sunny day, but two days before that were not so nice and windy. He remembers because he had to put the buoys out on the lake […]
Carla Hardy Dowd
Patty ….sorry, don’t have a picture….don’t know the year but it was WAY back. My Dad, Richard Hardy, has been gone several years and this is back when i still lived in Lenox with my folks on Walker St. near Kimball Stables….. So….36+ years ago. He smoked a pipe in the era when people […]
Kathy Manizza
I have two Josh stories — my favorite, however, is about my late brother-in-law and one of my best friends, Jim Henry. Jim lost an arm when he was 22 years old, in a factory accident. He became a great cyclist, even though he hadn’t been a biker before his accident. He won a silver […]
For Tim Darbe by Larry Bravo
For Tim – Tim Darbe loved the Josh Billings and looked forward to it each year. The third annual was his first Josh and he competed in about 36. In the early Josh days, we spent more time thinking up team names than we did training. One year was the Esoteric Midnight Philosophers, another […]
A Josh Tale – Bob Benner, 8/27/16
As a 40th birthday gift, my wife Susan got me a set of custom wheels, lovingly crafted by Tom Martin at Ordinary Cycles. Bladed titanium spokes, aero rims–fast and beautiful. They were sturdy enough for daily use, but fast and light enough for racing. I spent the summer putting miles on those wheels and paddling […]
Bill Terbush, 8/22/16
It was the fall of 1988, and as had become a tradition, it was time to register for the Josh. I was the team captain and I reached out to our group from the year before and confirmed that they were eager to compete again. This would be my 8th year and I was looking forward […]
Marge Cohan 8/2/16
In 1979 I came to the Berkshire to watch Roger Pumphrey race in the Josh Billing Race. I saw all these wonderful athletes competing in the beautiful Berkshires. I decided this was better than running behind a bus in NYC and immediately decided to move here. Fortunately, I landed a job (starting Meridian […]
Alison Pardee 7/19/2016
This is a happy story. It is a sad story. It is a story about the Josh. Most importantly, it’s a story about Tim Darbe. The first time I ever saw Tim Darbe he was strapping 3 canoes on top of his big old white van at the Charles River Canoe and Kayak […]
