BEYOND THE BOOKS
NEWS AND NOTEWORTHY EVENTS
Across the Country, Outside His Comfort Zone
A
S HENRY Harris ’16 rode
through the Oklahoma Panhandle — in the face of strong, debilitating headwinds
and grueling, 90-degree heat — he nearly lost his mind. He was 1,700 miles into a 3,200-mile, six-week biking adventure across the United States, beginning at the Atlantic Ocean in Charleston, S.C., and destined for
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the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, Calif.
200 OC EA N TO OC EA N 3 ,
9 S T A T E S M I L E S | 3 7 D AY S |
START
Charleston, SC
At that very moment, though, The American Challenge — sponsored by
FINISH
Santa Monica Pier, CA
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OF BRUNSWICK • FALL 2015
more like the end of the earth. “All I could see were
Overland Summers — didn’t
360-degree views of nothing,”
feel anything like an adventure.
Harris said. “There were
To the Brunswick senior, it felt
telephone polls and wires and