Children in Wales, Alaska, riding a wooden tricycle, ca. 1913-1939. Gonda Winkler Collection, Anchorage Museum, B1992.19.61.

Join us online for a virtual Cook Inlet Historical Society lecture.

Free online via Cloudcast.

Advance registration is required to receive the link. Please register directly on the Anchorage Museum website by following this link: Register Here

Speaker: Jessica Cherry

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Hear and see some of the fascinating history of cycling behind Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos’ new anthology, Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska. This book starts with reprints of three of the gold rush stories from Terrence Cole’s 1989 magazine insert, then picks up again with the advent of mountain biking and then fat tires in the 1980s and 1990s. The final section of the book features contemporary essays by Alaskan authors, and the social and environmental history behind many of these stories will be discussed in this talk.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jessica Cherry is a geoscientist, writer, and commercial airline pilot living in Anchorage, Alaska. She currently serves as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s regional climate services director for Alaska. Cherry is a 2022 Rasmuson Foundation awardee for literary arts. She was a top-100 finalist for the NASA Astronaut program in both 2012 and 2016 and is at work on an aviation-themed memoir.