On Tuesday, October 18 at 7:30pm, the Whallonsburg Grange Hall will present “Country Riding: Cyclists’ Rural Rambles, 1880 to 1900,” with Professor Robert McCullough. This is the fourth lecture in the fall Lyceum series entitled “Living on This Land.”
For roughly two decades, 1880 to 1900, American wheelmen and wheelwomen engaged in unbounded geographic exploration, aided by a new and independent means of travel: the bicycle. These wanderers became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes and recorded their discoveries in a variety of different forms, including journal and newspaper articles; illustrations; photographs; books; diaries; maps; and road books published by the League of American Wheelmen. Together, those records offer a treasure of observations about American places, useful to anyone engaged in landscape related studies.
Robert McCullough is Professor of Historic Preservation at the University of Vermont and the author of several books, including Old Wheelways. Traces of Bicycle History on the Land, and A Path for Kindred Spirits: The Friendship of Clarence Stein and Benton MacKaye.
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