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The oldest modern bicycle Michigan’s Three Oaks Spokes Bicycle Museum has in its collection is an Elliot Hickory safety bike from 1892. It features equal-sized spoked hickory wheels, pneumatic tires, a chain drive, and an elliptical chain ring, something Japanese manufacturers reintroduced on bicycles in the late 1970s. The bike once belonged to local resident […]

Along the Elroy-Sparta bike trail, the country’s oldest rails-to-trails conversion, city tourists wax poetic about the simple life, retired couples turn their old homesteads into bed-and-breakfasts, and drivers offer rides to tuckered bikers for a fee. As the trail hits the outskirts of Wilton, a small village whose biggest attraction just a few years ago […]

In November of 1990, Dave Wasion made the discovery of his life. Wasion, animal warden for the city of Zion, has, by his own account, searched for Indian relics for many years. He had come across an old newspaper article about the discovery of mammoth bones in Kenosha County in the 1920s and ’30s, so […]