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Come ride your bike with vintage style
A Tweed Ride to Benefit Historic Northampton
Saturday, September 30, 2023 | 10 am to 12 noon
Rain date: Sunday, October 1, 2023
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Join us to celebrate the city’s past and present at our bicycle Tweed Ride sponsored by Historic Northampton and Friends of Northampton Trails.
 
Dust off your vintage threads and bring your trusty old bike for a family-friendly pedal of approximately 4 miles along Northampton's bike paths. Enjoy this century's bike paths in last century's style. 

We will end at the newly restored 1805 Shepherd Barn at Historic Northampton for light refreshments.

REGISTER for the Tweed Ride
​Limited to 40. | ​Sliding Scale: $15 - $25​
All registrants participating in the bike ride will be asked to sign a liability waiver.

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​Want to join the old time fun
but skip the ride?

You can register to meet us at the Shepherd Barn for refreshments
​at 11:30 am.

Click here to RSVP for refreshments
​only in the Shepherd Barn.

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Image Credits:
Photograph of 11 Corticelli Street, Florence, MA, 01062, Howes Brothers Photographers.

Photograph of Tom Bolter and Fred Crittenden with penny-farthing (high wheel) bicycles. Gift of Clifford H. Lyman.

Photograph of 8 Conz Street (formerly Maple Street), Northampton, MA, 01060, Howes Brothers Photographers.

Photograph from an album belonging to Northampton photographer Frederick N. Kneeland.

Illustration from Ladies' Standard Magazine (April 1896 p. 5) from the book, Women's Shoes in America, 1795-1930 by Nancy Rexford, Kent State University Press, Ohio, 2000, p. 139, with Rexford caption "Bicycling costume consisting of a shirtwaist worn with a skirt that is combined with trousers in a single garment.  The bicyclist is shown wearing cloth gaiters over ordinary shoes, a choice far more commonly illustrated than special bicycling boots."
HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON
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  • About
    • About Historic Northampton
    • Hours and Directions
    • What's On View >
      • Main Street Exhibit
      • The Sarah Strong Chest
    • Board-Staff
    • Legal/Financial
  • Programs
    • Upcoming Programs
    • Past Programs 2022
    • Help I am not receiving email announcements
  • Explore
    • Collections & Research
    • History at Home >
      • Videos
      • Interactive Witch Trial
      • Paper Dolls
      • Hidden Histories
      • Scavenger Hunts
      • Coloring Pages
      • Brain Teasers
      • Peg Doll Hunts
      • Jonathan Edwards Prayer Requests
    • Properties >
      • Parsons House
      • Damon House
      • Shepherd House
      • Shepherd Barn 2020
      • The Bridge Street School Sprouts
    • Educational Websites
    • Historic Highlights
    • COVID-19 Stories >
      • Vaccination Photos
      • Submit Your COVID Story
      • Children React
      • Family and Neighborhood Fun
      • It's a New World
      • Hope and Togetherness
      • Images
      • How Illness Feels
      • Brings Forth Memory
      • Blessings and the New Busy
      • Fear and Worry
  • Indigenous Native History
    • Native Histories in Nonotuck
    • Nonotuck Histories Essay by Margaret M. Bruchac
    • Recovering Nonotuck Histories Photo Essay
    • Profiles of Native People
    • Extended Biographies of Native People
    • Nonotuck to Northampton Maps
    • Native LIves Bibliography
  • History of Slavery
    • About the Slavery Research Project
    • Black Enslaved People
    • Free Black People
    • Native Enslaved People
    • Enslavers of People
    • Relationship Map
    • Timeline of Slavery in Northampton
  • DONATE
    • Make a Donation
    • WAYS TO GIVE
    • Join the Email List
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    • IRA Giving
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