150 years of Bicycling in America - Invitation

Hope to see you in New Haven at the Cycle-bration !!!! 
Riding , display, demonstrations, lectures , ...enjoy New Haven at it's best .... why wait til the 200th anniversary .
More information will be posted as details come available 
Cheers Carey Williams 

                           27^th Annual International Cycling History Conference 2016

                           Best Western Hotel  201 Washington , North Haven, CT 

                                           Papers Schedule for June  26^th-28^th

Sunday June 26^th      Open to all !  Public invited, free entry.

1:00 pm hall opens

 2:00pm             The American Cycling Experience – A Photographic Record 1850-1950.   Lorne Shields, Canada

2:45pm              The Hobby Horse in America, man learns to balance 1819. Glen Norcliffe, Canada 

3:15pm            Pierre Lallement and the Velocipede era, man learns to pedal, 1865-70.       David Herlihy , Boston ,MA

15 minute break

 4:00pm             The rise and fall of the high bicycle; pedaling with a view, 1870-1893.          Carey Williams, Chicago IL

4:45pm              Boom and bust of the American bicycle craze, 1890’s.  Paul Rubenson, Baltimore , MD

6:00pm hall closes

Monday June 27^th    ICHC attendees only (registration required)

8:30 am hall opens

9:00              An Autobiography between the lines; Karl Kron’s 10,000 miles on a bicycle.                             Dave Buchanan, Edmonton, Canada.

9:30              Reading Smart (’s diary). Mapping the routes and embodied subjectivity of a 1890’s cyclist. Christine Bachman-Sanders, Minn, MN

10:00          Trans Am Trail, America’s Bicycle route. Greg Siple, Adventure Cycling Association   Missoula, Montana

10:30-11:00 break

11:00            Bicycling History Archive.  Joanne Riley, Healey Library University Mass,  Boston

11:15            Joseph R Wilson Jr, State vs Yopp and the League of American Wheelmen. Michael Gately, NYC

11:30          "Mount Holly and Smithville Bicycle Railroad".  Dennis McDonald, Medford, NJ

12:00-1:00pm Lunch

1:00            America’s first bicycles: the velocipede era.  Carey Williams, Chicago. IL

1:30           The life of Charles Palmer, (New Rapid). Christian Wignall, San Francisco, CA

2:00          The safety bicycle. Nick Clayton, UK

2:30-3:00 break

3:00        Unveiled, a chain drive American velocipede tricycle. Lorne Shields, Toronto Canada

3:30       “Lady Cyclists” Dress and tricycling in Britain and the United States during the 1880’s. Catlin Cohn, MN

4:00        The Needham Tricycle. John Malseed, UK

Hall closes at 5:00pm

Tuesday June 28^th   ICHC attendees only (registration required)

Hall opens at 8:30am

9:00        Pipe Dreams. Nicholas Oddy , UK

9:30       Wheel Violence. Duncan Jamieson, Ashland University, OH

10:00     Bicycling and bicycling advocacy on Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 1970-present. John Allen, Boston, MA

10:30-11:00 break

11:00      The Henley Bicycle Works and its founder.  Gary Sanderson, Verona, NJ

11:30      Aluminum Bike frame project MIT 1974  .  Harriet Fell,

12:00     1982 The year of the plastic bicycles.  Chris Morris, B. C., Canada

12:30-1:30  Lunch

1:30       Overman and Eastman. The bond (and break) of American icon George Eastman and bicycle magnate Albert Overman.  David Herlihy, Boston, MA

2:00        The church or the wheel, religion contends with the American bicycle boom.

 Chris Sweet,  IL

2:30        Fred St. Onge and the Transformation of Bicycling in the Bust Years

Lorenz J. Finison, Ph.D, Boston Mass

3:00 -3:15 Break

3:15      Traces of 19th Century Cycling in the building environment. Robert MCCullough, VT

3:45      Cycling in the 19^th century Gent.   Dirk Van Luchem, Gent , Belgium

4:15      28^th ICHC  Mannheim, Germany 2017   Eva Gramlich

4:30   ICHC  business meeting

5:30    hall closes  

Banquet in Evening

Wednesday June 29^th bus tour