On this episode of Our American Stories Walter Hunt is known as the Yankee mechanical genius His hundreds of inventions include a saw a steamer ink stands a nail-making machine a rifle a revolver bullets bicycles a shirt collar a boot heel and a ceiling-walking circus device Hunt's most successful invention was designed in just three hours to settle a debt to one of the many draftsmen he tasked with drawing up his patents Here's Ashley Hlebinsky with the story Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories from the modernization of medicine to the development of our country's road systems the bicycle has had a major impact on American life Though its rise occurred in the nineteenth century cycling is still something that's very popular in our country today Margaret Guroff author of The Mechanical Horse How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life brings us the story Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories from the modernization of medicine to the development of our country's road systems the bicycle has had a major impact on American life Though its rise occurred in the nineteenth century cycling is still something that's very popular in our country today Margaret Guroff author of The Mechanical Horse How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life brings us the story Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories from the modernization of medicine to the development of our country's road systems the bicycle has had a major impact on American life Though its rise occurred in the nineteenth century cycling is still something that's very popular in our country today Margaret Guroff author of The Mechanical Horse How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life brings us the story Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories did you know that author-illustrators Hans and Margret Rey fled Nazi-occupied France on handmade bicycles with the manuscript to the first Curious George book among their meager possessions Louise Borden is here to tell the story She is the author of The Journey That Saved Curious George The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H A Rey Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

Seattle's Gay Pride Parade featured Boy Scouts waving rainbow flags and naked men on bicycles No one was arrested Dalton Glasscock Art Ally Tony Perkins Katie Daviscourt Jeremy Dys and Coach Joe Kennedy join the conversation See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]