Weekly essays exploring historical themes related to Route 76 in Virginia
November 27, 2025: Thanksgiving Bicycle Parades (link)
November 20, 2025: An Extraordinary Feat (link)
November 13, 2025: Dunmore Proclamation (link)
November 6, 2025: Draper Mural (link)
October 30, 2025: Benefits of Bicycle Tourism (link)
October 23, 2025: A Summer on Wheels for $500 (link)
October 16, 2025: Newspaper Carriers on Bicycles ca 1975 (link)
October 9, 2025: Bicycles & Public Art (link)
October 2, 2025: Perilous Rides and Foolhardy Feats (link)
September 25, 2025: Trolley Lines and Bicycle Trails (link)
September 18, 2025: Bicycles and Films, in memory of Robert Redford (link)
September 11, 2025: Advising Consumers about Cycling Safety (link)
September 4, 2025: Fed Employee Quits Job to Bike US (link)
August 28, 2025: Born to Run (link)
August 21, 2025: Palmyra Bicycle Repair Station (link)
August 14, 2025: Arthur Ashe, Richmond, and Bicycling (link)
August 7, 2025: Freedom in 1775 (link)
July 31, 2025: Girl Cashier Seeks ‘Bike’ Fame (link)
July 24, 2025: Dr Pepper, Rural Retreat, and Route 76 (link)
July 17, 2025: Tour de France 1975 (link)
July 10, 2025: Cousins, Collateral Damage, and the Civil War (link)
July 3, 2025: Uncle Sam on a Bicycle (link)
June 26, 2025: Bicycle Parades in the Gilded Age (link)
June 19, 2025: Juneteenth ca 1975 (link)
June 12, 2025: Circles, Bicycles… and Popes? (link)
June 5, 2025: John Casor: First Man Enslaved? (link)
May 29, 2025: Julius Bitter, Bicycling Teacher (link)
May 22, 2025: Die or Be Free (link)
May 15, 2025: Mystery Cyclist (link)
May 8, 2025: Bicycles & Trains (link)
May 1, 2025: Bicycle Month (link)
April 24, 2025: Virginia Creeper Trail (link)
April 17, 2025: Gunpowder Incident (link)
April 10, 2025: Earth Day (link)
April 3, 1775: Lexington and Concord, April 1775 (link)
March 27, 2025: Aline Black and the Struggle for Equal Rights (link)
March 20, 2025: Give Me Liberty! (link)
March 13, 2025: Women’s Rights and Bicycles (link)
March 6, 2025: Women’s Bicycle Racing, 1890s and 2020s (link)
February 27, 2025: Black History Month: Major Taylor Champion Cyclist (link)
February 20, 2025: Black History Month: Civil Rights along Route 76 (link)
February 13, 2025: Black History Month: John Punch: (link)
February 6, 2025: Black History Month: Booker T. Washington’s Speech (link)
January 30, 2025: 1876 Centennial Celebrations (link)
January 23, 2025: Dear Dr Bicycle (link)
January 16, 2025: Fincastle Resolutions (link)
January 9, 2025: President Carter & Bicycles (link)
January 2, 2025: Virginian Railway Underpass near Blacksburg (link)
