Not everybody on here reads the NYTimes ... do they? On May 10, 1884, midway through his 48th year, Samuel L. Clemens reluctantly “confessed to age” by wearing glasses for the first time. That same day, the celebrated writer better known as Mark Twain sought to reclaim his youth by mounting a bicycle for the first time.
Only one of these first tries succeeded. “The spectacles,” Twain later recalled, “stayed on.” Bodily contusions notwithstanding, Twain promoted the new sport of cycling with characteristic rhubarb tartness. “Get a bicycle,” he urged readers. “You will not regret it, if you live.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/science/the-bicycle-and-the-ride-to-modern-america.html?emc=edit_au_20150713&nl=afternoonupdate&nlid=54335347&_r=0 -- a Andy Bach, [email protected] 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk
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