Give your child the responsibility of checking out the books. Present your child with a bookbag or sturdy tote for carrying library books to and from the library. It is Roller Skating Week . About 50 million people in the United States roller-skate. More skate on in-line skates than on skates with four wheels.
People skate alone and some play in roller team sports.
About 300 years ago, Hans Brinker of Holland made an in-line skate. He attached several wooden thread spools to a shoe hoping to enable ice skaters to skate when there was no ice. In 1760, Joseph Merlin, an inventive musical instruments craftsman placed metal wheels on shoes to skate into a party while playing the violin. He had not perfected stopping and was badly hurt when he crashed into a full-length mirror. In 1863, James Plimpton became ill and his doctor prescribed roller-skating as exercise.