Poster Exhibition
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Publications
Articles by project team
E. Thomas Ewing, “Peggy Vahle and her Poodle Poo on America’s Bikecentennial,” Uncommonweatlh Blog, June 22, 2026 (link)
E. Thomas Ewing, “Debating the Bikecentennial Route in Christiansburg,” News Messenger, May 20, 2026 (link, subscription required, or here)
E. Thomas Ewing and Grace Kostrzebski, “Across Virginia by Bike,” Roanoke Times, May 10, 2026. (link, subscription required, or here)
E Thomas Ewing, “The History of Lusters Gate Cheese Factory and US Bicycle Route 76,” Montgomery News Messenger, January 7, 2026, pp. 2, 10 (link, subscription required, or here)
E Thomas Ewing, “Honoring a Virginia cycling pioneer,” Roanoke Times, December 21, 2025, p. A15 (link, or here)
Tom Ewing, “Pedal Through the Past,” Blue Ridge Outdoors, December 2025, pp. 7-8 (link)
E. Thomas Ewing, “Daleville trio’s 1910 ride sparked Roanoke’s lasting cycling legacy,” Fincastle Herald, November 24, 2025 (link, or here)
Tom Ewing, “The 1976 Bikecentennial in Pulaski County,” The Patriot and Southwest Times, October 19, 2025 (link, or here)
E. Thomas Ewing and Grace Kostrzebski, “Wear a Helmet: Be Cool,” Circulating Now, National Library of Medicine, August 28, 2025 (link)
E. Thomas Ewing and Grace Kostrzebski, “Lessons from bicycling Virginia’s Historic Triangle in 1976,” Virginia Pilot (Virginia Beach), August 24, 2025 (link, or here)
E. Thomas Ewing, “How the Bicycle Boom of the 1970s Prepared the Way for the Bikecentennial,” Uncommonwealth. Voices from the Library of Virginia, July 16, 2025 (link)
E. Thomas Ewing and Grace Kostrzebski, “Bicycle History Moment: A Flogging After a Woman Rode a Bicycle While Wearing Knickers” Momentum, July 2, 2025 (link)
E. Thomas Ewing and Grace Kostrzebski, “The Bicycle in Relation to the Physician, 1892,” Circulating Now, June 26, 2025 (link)
E. Thomas Ewing and Grace Kostrzebski, “Pedaling New Historical Paths,” Roanoke Times, May 2, 2025, p. A7 (link to Roanoke Times, subscription required; link to article)
Tom Ewing, “Bicycle Route 76 in Botetourt County is topic of program by Virginia Tech professor May 14,” Fincastle Herald, April 30, 2025, p. 12 (link to newspaper [subscription required]; link to article)
Tom Ewing, “Appalachian Trail and Route 76,” Blazer, Newsletter of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, Spring 2025 pp. 16-17 (link)
Tom Ewing, “Intersections: Appalachian Trail and Bicycle Route 76,” Blazer, Newsletter of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, Spring 2023 (link)
Media reports about the project
”Stories for the Semiquincentennial,” With Good Reason, Virginia Humanities, June 2026 (link)
Roxy Todd, “Retracing a historic biking trail, Route 76, from Virginia to Oregon,” Radio IQ / WVTF Public Radio, May 12, 2026 (link).
Julia Kell, “Pedaling through time: Vibrant Virginia project highlights history along U.S. bicycle route 76 in alignment with 250th celebration,” Virginia Tech Center for Economic and Community Engagement, May 6, 2026 (link)
Virginia Bicycling Federation Blog, “Pedaling through Virginia’s Past and Future on US Bike Route 76; How Bicycling Tourism Benefits Virginia,” October 27, 2025 (link)
Eric Wilson, “The ‘Bikecentennial Revisited,” Lexington News Gazette, April 17, 2025 (link)
Presentations
“Exploring the Power of Place along US Bicycle Route 76 in Virginia,”
presented by Grace Kostrebski and Tom Ewing, Thursday, October 30, 2025, 12:30 pm, Newman Library 124 and streaming here and from the Humanities Week website: https://liberalarts.vt.edu/humanities-week.html
Roads, Rivers, and Railways along Transamerican Bicycle Route 76 in Virginia,” Presentation for the Wilderness Road Museum, Newbern, September 11, 2025, 6 pm (link)
July 2025, Introduction Bike 76 VA, VDOT Bicycle Pedestrian Committee (link)
May 14, 6 pm, Troutville, in partnership with Botetourt County Historical Society
May 4, 2 pm, Lylburn Downing Middle School, Lexington, in partnership with the Rockbridge Historical Society and Lexington / Rockbridge VA250 committees
“Making History Visible in Montgomery County along Bikecentennial Route 76”
April 23, 2024, 4:30 pm, Newman Library 124 and Zoom webinar: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/s/89070127036
Grace Kostrzebski and Tom Ewing, Department of History
Partners: Department of History, Appalachian Studies, Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia, VT Publishing, New River Bicycle Associations, Montgomery Museum
