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How the Bicycle Boom of the 1970s Prepared the Way for the Bikecentennial

Fifty years ago, a front page photograph in the February 28, 1974 issue of Southwest Times, published in Pulaski, Virginia, showed Dr. David Stanley, a…

Guest ContributorJuly 16, 2025

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Random Reference: Bicycling in the Time of Pandemics and Wars

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have noticed a steady increase in the number of people cycling in my neighborhood. Cycling has always…

Jennifer HuffFebruary 1, 2021

Virginia Authors

New Books – July 2020

The Library of Virginia is now open by appointment only. During this initial reopening phase, researchers will be able to use the collections by appointment…

Donna PletcherJuly 27, 2020

Newspapers

A Bicycle Search For You

As the UCI World Bike Championships unfold and professional road bikers from all over the map pedal by LVA down Richmond’s Broad Street, the Virginia Newspaper Project thought…

Kelley EwingSeptember 23, 2015