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Skates
For the past 300 years, skating has been a pleasurable pastime; ice skating as a means of transportation (on bone skates) has even been documented as far back as 1604 when the explorer Sieur de Monte settled on St. Croix Island.
Children and adults strapped skate blades to their one pair of Sunday best boots and could skate on ice ponds or rivers. As early as the 1850s, people could skate on covered ice rinks, either informally (often to music), or as participants in barrel races, speed skating contests, or curling.
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