Went for a brief walk through Central Park on a beautiful day before a midtown meeting. Walked by this famous statue of Balto, the hero sled dog who led the team which delivered diptheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska in 1925 -- the run which is annually commemorated by the Iditerod race. As the plaque under the statue reads:
Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed antitoxin six hundred miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the Winter of 1925.
Endurance · Fidelity · Intelligence
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