{"id":578,"date":"2023-08-14T02:34:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T02:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walthammuseum.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=578"},"modified":"2023-08-14T02:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T02:34:17","slug":"metz-day-at-the-waltham-museum-11am-talk-a-historic-look-at-bicycling-in-waltham","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/walthammuseum.org\/index.php\/event\/metz-day-at-the-waltham-museum-11am-talk-a-historic-look-at-bicycling-in-waltham\/","title":{"rendered":"Metz Day at the Waltham Museum 11am Talk: A Historic Look at Bicycling in Waltham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Join us for a talk with David V. Herlihy. The City of Waltham was a hub of transportation innovation in the late 1800\u2019s and early 1900\u2019s from bicycles to automobiles. In Waltham there were 3 manufacturers that stand out. Orient, Comet, and Howe and Stanforth\u2026David Herlihy will bring you the history of cycling in Waltham and the Boston area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Parking available in the Public Parking Garage directly across from the Waltham Museum, 25 Lexington St. Waltham MA. Free Admission to all museum events on September 23rd.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>David V. Herlihy is a historian and freelance writer specialized in bicycle <\/strong><strong>and motorcycle history. He is the author of two books (Bicycle: The History <\/strong><strong>with Yale University Press, 2004; and The Lost Cyclist, with Houghton <\/strong><strong>Mifflin Harcourt; 2010) and numerous articles, including annual <\/strong><strong>contributions to Adventure Cyclist. His seminal research on the origins of <\/strong><strong>the bicycle is well known internationally. He is responsible for the naming <\/strong><strong>of the Pierre Lallement bicycle path in Boston, and for a plaque by the New <\/strong><strong>Haven Green commemorating America\u2019s first recorded bicycle ride there in <\/strong><strong>April 1866. He was the curator of two major exhibitions, The Bicycle Takes <\/strong><strong>Off (Lockwood-Mathews Museum of Norwalk, CT 2000-2002) and Round <\/strong><strong>Trip (UCLA\u2019s Fowler Art Museum 2014-2015<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This program supported by a grant from the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for a talk with David V. Herlihy. The City of Waltham was a hub of transportation innovation in the late 1800\u2019s and early 1900\u2019s from bicycles to automobiles&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572,"template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-578","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walthammuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walthammuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walthammuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walthammuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walthammuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/walthammuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/578\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walthammuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walthammuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walthammuseum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}