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![Joe, second from left, captain of the South Manchester High School (SMHS) track team, 1928-29.](https://cdn.manchesterhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/04100704/Team-Captain-Joe-McClusky-300x119.jpg)
Historic People
Honoring Joe McCluskey
By Rick Dyer, archivist of the Manchester Road Race Committee Spoken at a reception celebrating Joe on Friday, May 19, 2017 Twelve-year-old Joe McCluskey bounds out the front door and onto the porch at 40 Foster Street. There’s a canvass newspaper bag slung over his shoulder. Joe is tall and