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An egg-and-spoon race is a sporting event in which participants must balance an egg or similarly shaped item upon a spoon and race with it to the finishing line. At many primary schools an egg-and-spoon race is staged as part of the annual Sports Day , alongside other events such as the sack race and the three-legged race .
Betty MacDonald (born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard; March 26, 1907 [1] – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I.
Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children.
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The Egg and I, first published in 1945, is a humorous memoir by American author Betty MacDonald about her adventures and travels as a young wife on a chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in the US state of Washington.
The story opens as the narrator, a man named Ferguson (an Updike autobiographical figure), is reminiscing about festivities in his boyhood community that included an “egg-and-spoon race” for local children. Ferguson, an archaeologist, recalls the general outpouring of the community's grief at the passing of his father, a retired school teacher.
The series obtained its name from the initial challenge of making a device capable of transporting an egg in a rubber-band-powered vehicle the furthest possible distance without breaking it. After the initial egg-related challenges, other non-egg events were introduced, [4] and after two series, the original egg-racing was dropped.
A group of children in Fallujah, Iraq, participating in a sack race Sack race in Sweden, 1931 Sack race in Malaysia, 2023 Potato sack race in Wendell, Massachusetts. A sack race or potato sack race is a competitive game in which participants place both of their legs inside a sack (usually a potato sack) or pillow case that reaches their waist or neck and hop forward from a starting point ...