With many thanks for the fun I've had, I mention these:
The link to the very entertaining Smithsonian-produced history of bike's relationship to women's history is here:
https://www.si.edu/stories/19th-century-bicycle-craze
I used background from several issues of Historical Wyoming, a quarterly periodical of the Wyoming County Historian's Office.
Link to the county historian's office: http://www.wyomingco.net/253/Historian?fbclid=IwAR1BOrQPJ8RGd0Zv2Qk8tVzbFkTTWlhaRfF1vEMeDVR_WLPPJIyz1yxE-gM
Or you may check out their interesting FaceBook page under Wyoming County Historian's Office
The articles I used were:
January, 1978, "Susan Look Avery, a 19th Century Reformer" by the Jane Oakes Kirk
Oct/Nov 1992, "Wyoming Depot Area" by John Gilbert Wilson
Oct/Nov 2020 "War, Influenza, Suffrage and Voting: the Issues of 1918" by Cindy Amhrein
Marion Warren Allen (Cora's daughter and my aunt) left us a charming booklet, "Wyoming, New York, The Town Where I Grew Up". Her remiscences of her child hood in Wyoming from 1900 to 1915, of growing up at Cora and Lewis's house are full of information about what daily life was like. I've used information from the booklet and recommend it to you. It's available for purchase at the Middlebury Academy Museum which covers the village of Wyoming. The Academy will be open to visitors starting June 6, 2021 from 2 to 4 pm Sundays.
Or, their contact information is available on the FaceBook page of Middlebury Historical Society or by writing to this address: PO Box 992, Wyoming, NY 14591. The booklet is available for purchase for $7.00 including delivery.
Bye Now!
Thanks for reading....if you got this far I'm pleased. Please share your own thoughts and reminiscences with us before you go....and your opinions, too, of course.