Hancock - Old Home Day  Forty-Seven Years in the Parade     The Penny Farthing     Old Home Week was modified at some later date to Old Home Day in Hancock. There are now many forms of entertainment and activities, but the parade every year is the most popular attraction. The Historical Society's high wheel bicycle, or "Penny Farthing," has been ridden in the parade for 47 consecutive years, ever since Otis Wilder Sr. created a front tire for the five-foot wheel from a garden hose held together with a door spring inside. That "tire" lasted for years until it was replaced in 1972 with a reproduction tire. The time-worn saddleseat was replaced by Ken Kepner a local leather craftsman, in 1982.  For more photos of the Penny Farthing, please click here   Return to Homepage - Write to the HHS Hancock Historical Society, Hancock, N.H., copyright 2002