“From Main to the Kicking Tree: Daily Walks in Aurora, ca. 1905”

Experience Aurora around the turn of the last century in the show at Patrick Tavern, 302 Main  St. From Wells College’s opening in 1868 for many decades, students were required to walk about a mile each day. The most usual walk began at Main Building and went north to a big elm tree on the west side of the street, not quite opposite Sherwood Rd., which came to be called the Kicking Tree.