The Mayne Inheritance which is the course's most difficult hill located about 1.5-1.75 miles into the race. The finish of the course is slightly uphill. With the 2006 changes, the best high school runners in Connecticut completed the course in just under 16 minutes. In previous years the winning times were usually 15:25 or less. This increase of about 30–40 seconds is mostly due to a large change in the course after the one-mile (1.6 km) mark, when the course turns onto a wood-chip trail that leads runners downhill around the finish line of the course instead of taking 	Wickham Park (Manchester, Connecticut)
5882980	a road down past (in front of) the finish. Since the course change in 2006, Alex Ostberg of Darien High School has the male course record of 14:58, and Kate Wiser of Pomperaug High School has the female record (set in 2019) of 17:39 Summer Grand Prix Series. The Manchester-based Silk City Striders running club hosts the Summer Grand Prix Cross Country Race Series, which has been an annual event at Wickham Park since 1991. The series consists of 5 race days in the months of July and August and includes a one-mile children's race and a 	Wickham Park (Manchester, Connecticut)
5882981	2.6 mile open race. Wickham Park (Manchester, Connecticut) Wickham Park is a nonprofit, private foundation in Manchester and a small part of East Hartford, Connecticut. The park contains of gardens, open fields, woodlands, ponds, picnic areas and sports facilities, among other attractions. History. of the park was a gift from Clarence Horace Wickham. Another were given by Myrtle Williams in 1967, who owned land adjacent to the original property. Olmsted Associates of Brookline, Massachusetts were the designers for the original park layout. Wickham was an industrialist who invented the window envelope, used in mailing and business. He managed a successful 	Wickham Park (Manchester, Connecticut)
5882982	The Mayne Inheritance The Mayne Inheritance The Mayne Inheritance is a non-fiction book written by Queensland author Rosamond Siemon. It was first published in 1997 by University of Queensland Press, and a new edition with updated information was issued by the same publisher in 2003. The book won the Brisbane City Council's One Book One Brisbane" competition in 2003. Plot and themes. "The Mayne Inheritance" tells the story of Patrick Mayne, a young man who migrated to Australia from his impoverished background in County Tyrone, Ireland in 1841. He was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland in 1824. He soon moved  to the infant town of Brisbane where he found work as a slaughterman in an abattoir. In 1848 a sawyer, Robert Cox, was savagely murdered at Kangaroo Point and a considerable amount of money was presumed to have been stolen. The next year, Patrick Mayne married and, despite being a poorly paid labourer, bought his own butcher's shop in what is now Brisbane's central business district. He then expanded his business empire through investing cleverly and soon became one of Brisbane's richest men. Patrick became one of the aldermen on the first Brisbane Municipal Council in 1859 . He died in 1865 from an unspecified illness, and according to the book during his dying days confessed to the murder of Robert Cox. He left behind a widow and five children who had to survive in a hostile colonial environment which ostracised them for being the children of a confessed murderer. The second half of the book deals mainly with the lives of these children, none of whom married, and in particular James O'Neil Mayne who used the wealth inherited from his father to become a philanthropist. His most notable deed was funding the purchase of of land at  St Lucia for the University of Queensland. This spacious riverside site is still the main campus of the University. The story of "The Mayne Inheritance" spans nearly a century, from Patrick's arrival in Australia in the 1840s to the death of his last surviving child, Mary Emelia Mayne, in 1940, at the age of 81. The narrative takes place within the context of Brisbane's history, and the reader is also taken on the journey of Brisbane's transformation from an isolated colonial hamlet to a major Australian city. Adaptations. The book was adapted for the stage by Errol  O'Neill and premiered at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre in 2004. The Mayne Inheritance The Mayne Inheritance is a non-fiction book written by Queensland author Rosamond Siemon. It was first published in 1997 by University of Queensland Press, and a new edition with updated information was issued by the same publisher in 2003. The book won the Brisbane City Council's "One Book One Brisbane" competition in 2003. Plot and themes. "The Mayne Inheritance" tells the story of Patrick Mayne, a young man who migrated to Australia from his impoverished background in County Tyrone, Ireland in 1841. He was