This Thursday, October 25, 6:30 to 8:00 PM at Onion River Outdoors on Langdon St in Montpelier - UVM professor Luis Vivanco explores the fascinating early history of the bicycle in Vermont, an invention that generated widespread curiosity here in the 1880s. During the 1890s, enthusiasm exploded statewide as bicycles became safer, women took to the wheel, roads improved, and retailers developed techniques to draw in buyers. By 1920, interest waned, but it had not just been a fad: the bicycle was tied to important changes in industrial production, consumerism, road policies, gender relations, and cultural ideas about auto-mobility and effortless speed.

A Vermont Humanities Council Speakers Bureau Event; co-sponsored by Onion River Outdoors and Kellogg-Hubbard Library.

Dec 23, 2024, 6 to 7:40 PM

Dec 24, 2024, 3:50 to 5 PM

Dec 24, 2024, 7 to 8 PM