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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.
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 .
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This list of egg topics connects to numerous articles about eggs. The wide-ranging diversity of topics here exceeds the scope of any other single article to link all of these articles. The wide-ranging diversity of topics here exceeds the scope of any other single article to link all of these articles.
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.
Born and raised in Albany, New York, Gregory Maguire is the youngest of four children born to Helen and John Maguire.His mother died from complications suffered giving birth to him, which prompted his father to send him to live with an aunt.
Egg-and-spoon race; Egg balancing; Egg decorating; Egg decorating in Slavic culture; Egg drop competition; Egg Fu; Egg of Columbus; Egg of Columbus (mechanical puzzle) Egg oil; Egg shoeing; Egg Yolkeo; Egghead (DC Comics) Egging; Eggnog; Eggs of Steel: Charlie's Eggcellent Adventure; Elective Affinities (Magritte)