NH pair wins wife-carrying contest
<SCRIPT language=javascript type=text/javascript> var isoPubDate = 'October 12, 2008'</SCRIPT>By Associated Press
October 12, 2008 8:35 AM
NEWRY, Maine - A New Hampshire team that narrowly lost a year ago returned to Sunday River Ski Resort to win the ninth annual North American Wife-Carrying Championship.
Ri Fahnestock and Sarah Silverberg, friends from Dover, N.H., claimed victory Saturday and were awarded Silverberg's weight in beer: five cases.
They also won $610 — five times Silverberg's weight — and qualified for the World Wife-Carrying Championship in Finland.
Forty-three teams signed up to run the 278-yard course, which featured a 39-inch-high wooden hurdle, a long pit of waist-deep water, and a mound of earth.
<SCRIPT language=javascript type=text/javascript> var isoPubDate = 'October 12, 2008'</SCRIPT>By Associated Press
October 12, 2008 8:35 AM
NEWRY, Maine - A New Hampshire team that narrowly lost a year ago returned to Sunday River Ski Resort to win the ninth annual North American Wife-Carrying Championship.
Ri Fahnestock and Sarah Silverberg, friends from Dover, N.H., claimed victory Saturday and were awarded Silverberg's weight in beer: five cases.
They also won $610 — five times Silverberg's weight — and qualified for the World Wife-Carrying Championship in Finland.
Forty-three teams signed up to run the 278-yard course, which featured a 39-inch-high wooden hurdle, a long pit of waist-deep water, and a mound of earth.
