WESTERLY, R.I. — With this year’s Boston Marathon set for Monday, a group of local runners and family members is raising money for a bronze statue of Ellison “Tarzan” Brown, the ...

AP Images The full story of Ellison “Tarzan” Brown is more complicated, though, laced with its own pathos and heartbreak. Now, a half-century after Tarzan suffered a wrenching death in 1975 ...

Brown was so far ahead that by the time he got to Newton, he was “essentially jogging it in,” McDougall said. And that’s when Kelley made his move. Ellison Myer Tarzan Brown of Westerly who ...