Keywords: Bicycle Champion
Item 23824
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 25401
Jack Lawrence, Saco, on Bicycle, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
