Keywords: Mrs. Almon Fogg
Item 15600
Excursion to Mount Kineo from Houlton, 1894
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1894-08-02 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 103288
Return party from Mt. Kineo, Houlton, 1894
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1894-08-02 Location: Houlton Media: Photograph
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.
