Come join the Cycle-bration………..
150 years of Bicycling in America

Come to New Haven where America learned to ride a bicycle!

Hosted at Best Western Hotel, 201 Washington Ave, North Haven, CT

Sunday June 26th

Antique Bicycle exhibition and lecture series 1-6 pm open to the public, free of charge.

1:00 pm	Hall Opens
2:00 pm	The American Cycling Experience – A Photographic Record 1850-1950	Lorne Shields, Canada
2:45 pm	The Hobby Horse in America, man learns to balance 1819	Glen Norcliffe, Canada
3:15 pm	Pierre Lallement and the Velocipede era, man learns to pedal, 1865-70	David Herlihy, Boston ,MA
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	The rise and fall of the high bicycle; pedaling with a view, 1870-1893	Carey Williams, Chicago IL
4:45 pm	Boom and bust of the American bicycle craze, 1890’s	Paul Rubenson, Baltimore , MD
6:00 pm	Hall Closes

Monday June 27th ICHC attendees only (registration required)

8:30 am	Hall Opens
9:00 am	An Autobiography between the lines; Karl Kron’s 10,000 miles on a bicycle	Dave Buchanan, Edmonton, Canada
9:30 am	Reading Smart (’s diary). Mapping the routes and embodied subjectivity of a 1890’s cyclist	Christine Bachman-Sanders, Minn, MN
10:00 am	Trans Am Trail, America’s Bicycle route	Greg Siple, Adventure Cycling Association Missoula, Montana
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Bicycling History Archive	Joanne Riley, Healey Library University Mass, Boston
11:15 am	Joseph R Wilson Jr, State vs Yopp and the League of American Wheelmen	Michael Gately, NYC
11:30 am	"Mount Holly and Smithville Bicycle Railroad"	Dennis McDonald, Medford, NJ
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	America’s first bicycles: the velocipede era	Carey Williams, Chicago. IL
1:30 pm	The life of Charles Palmer, (New Rapid)	Christian Wignall, San Francisco, CA
2:00 pm	The safety bicycle	Nick Clayton, UK
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Unveiled, a chain drive American velocipede tricycle	Lorne Shields, Toronto Canada
3:30 pm	“Lady Cyclists” Dress and tricycling in Britain and the United States during the 1880’s	Catlin Cohn, MN
4:00 pm	The Needham Tricycle	John Malseed, UK
5:00 pm	Hall Closes

Tuesday June 28th ICHC attendees only (registration required)

8:30 am	Hall Opens
9:00 am	Pipe Dreams	Nicholas Oddy, UK
9:30 am	Wheel Violence	Duncan Jamieson, Ashland University, OH
10:00 am	Bicycling and bicycling advocacy on Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 1970-present	John Allen, Boston, MA
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	The Henley Bicycle Works and its founder	Gary Sanderson, Verona, NJ
11:30 am	Aluminum Bike frame project MIT 1974	Harriet Fell
12:00 pm	1982 The year of the plastic bicycles	Chris Morris, B. C., Canada
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	America’s first bicycles: the velocipede era.	Carey Williams, Chicago, IL
1:30 pm	Overman and Eastman. The bond (and break) of American icon George Eastman and bicycle magnate Albert Overman	David Herlihy, Boston, MA
2:00 pm	The church or the wheel, religion contends with the American bicycle boom	Chris Sweet, IL
2:30 pm	Fred St. Onge and the Transformation of Bicycling in the Bust Years	Lorenz J. Finison, Ph.D, Boston Mass
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Traces of 19th Century Cycling in the building environment	Robert MCCullough, VT
3:45 pm	Cycling in the 19th century Gent	Dirk Van Luchem, Gent, Belgium
4:15 pm	28th ICHC Mannheim, Germany 2017	Eva Gramlich
4:30 pm	ICHC business meeting
5:30 pm	Hall Closes
	Banquet in Evening

Wednesday June 29th ICHC attendees only (registration required)

Bus Tour