On Sunday, August 5 at 2:00, the Martha Canfield Library will host "Of Wheelmen, the New Woman, and Good Roads: Bicycling in Vermont, 1880-1920". Luis Vivanco will explore the fascinating early history of the bicycle in Vermont, a new invention that gained widespread popularity in the 1880s and 1890s. By 1920, popular interest in bicycles had waned, but it had not just been a fad: the bicycle was tied to important changes in industrial production, consumerism, new road policies and regulations, gender relations and new cultural ideas about automobility and effortless speed. This program, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, call the library at 802-375-6153.