With Lorenz J. Finison

Friends of Northampton Trails and Greenways (FNTG) and Historic Northampton invite you to a presentation by Lorenz Finison.

In the late 1800’s, the popularity of bicycles increased exponentially.  By 1900, the bicycling craze faded. Within the next few decades, automobiles became commonplace and roads were refashioned to serve cars first. Bicycling then experienced a renaissance in the 1970s as concerns over physical and environmental health coalesced.

Finison traces the activities of cycling environmental and social justice activists, and features topics of racing, touring, commuting, rails-to-trails, and how this history shapes our lives.  His talk will introduce for the first time the Pedal Against Pollution of 1972 as it passed through Northampton and the ill-fated Tour de Trump stage race which rolled through Northampton in 1990.