Annual Meeting with Public Program on Bicycling History in Vermont

Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 02:00 pm

Annual Meeting with Public Program on Bicycling History in Vermont

West Windsor Historical Society

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Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 02:00 pm

1023 Route 44, PO Box 12, Brownsville, VT, United States, Vermont 05037

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Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 02:00 pm (EDT)

1023 Route 44, PO Box 12, Vermont 05037

1023 VT-44, Brownsville, VT 05037-4434, United States

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Annual Meeting with Public Program on Bicycling History in Vermont
Come and join us for our annual meeting, which starts with a community social and ends with a special program for the public: Of Wheelmen, The New Woman, and Good Roads: Bicycling in Vermont, 1880-1920.

In this lecture, UVM professor Luis Vivanco explores the fascinating early history of the bicycle in Vermont, a new invention that generated widespread curiosity when it arrived here in the 1880s. During the 1890s, enthusiasm exploded statewide as bicycles became safer, women took to the wheel, roads improved, and retailers developed novel advertising techniques to draw in buyers.

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 auto-mobility and effortless speed.


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Annual Meeting with Public Program on Bicycling History in Vermont
Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 02:00 pm