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When the Bicycle Came to Vermont

  • Ilsley Library 75 Main St. Middlebury, VT (map)

UVM professor Luis Vivanco explores the fascinating early history of the bicycle in Vermont, an invention that generated widespread curiosity when it arrived in the 1880s—helping spark important changes in industrial production, consumerism, road policies, gender relations, and cultural ideas. Part of the Vermont Humanities First Wednesdays free lecture series.

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