Look what they've wrought

AUBURN - They were all essentially neighbors, and neighbors don't always get along.

For example, back in 1984, for the start of the sixth edition of the Captain Myles Keogh Paddle, Wheel and Run, better known as the Great Race, Marty Keough, rumored to be a distant relative of the captain, had a big surprise planned. Before the starting cannon went off, runners would be treated to a host of "Indians", a "Seventh Calvary", and a bagpipe band playing "Garry Owen", with all of them rising up from the lower fields at Auburn High School, where the race began in those days.

The trouble was in the surprise: no other race planners but Keough were aware of this Battle of Little Bighorn reenactment.