Oct 7, 2021
by Tim Dumas
“HOPKINTON — After all the champions spoke before her, Mary Jo LaFreniere came up with the winning words.
“Welcome to Hopkinton!” the Select Board member exclaimed.
A greeting that was not forthcoming more than half a century ago.
Roberta "Bobbi" Gibb did not need to hide in the bushes on this night. The spotlight kept her in plain sight.
Gibb is not only the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, she is the race’s first female to have a sculpture created in her honor, adding to the town’s iconic figures captured in bronze.
The statue, unveiled Tuesday night in a ceremony attended by a crowd of about 100 people at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, was created by its inspiration: Gibb.” Continue Reading.
