Innerviews: ; Lifelong Skater Still Rolling Along at 84
Charleston Gazette › November 03, 2010
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At 84, like Old Man River, he just keeps rolling along. Only Jim Thomas does his rolling on skates.
Every Saturday, the big-time wheeler travels to a rink in Ashland, Ky., to add to his skating log - more than 35,000 miles since he started counting in 1992. At 10 laps to a mile, that's a lot of trips around the rink.See the full content of this document
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Innerviews: ; Lifelong Skater Still Rolling Along at 84
He grew up poor in Whitesville. In 1935, at age 10, he learned the meaning of joy when someone gave him a pair of strap-on skates with iron wheels. The joyous freedom he felt on skates still moves him.
In the basement of his home near Sissonville, trophies, old skates and mounted news clippings form a kind of shrine to the sport that transformed him."I GREW UP in Whitesvill...See the full content of this document
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