Thank you very much its great to be here. Thank you for having me at the coop and thanks to the viewers booktv and cspan and all of you for coming out. I want to tell you the story yourself in 1896, a very different world than we know today the world in which there is millions of bicycles, 300 automobilesui, the subways were not in new york city, this is the world where it raised the first personal race. The new york city of the 1890s and the population of the city doubled there were horses and horse and buggies and there were streetcars, railroads that the bicycle came along for many years it wascl just something tt specialized writers had used but the safety bicycles were two equal size wheels came along in the masses started to ride. They became the most popular form of conveyance. People just relied on the horse and buggy got a way to get around cleanly, fast and efficient and for a lot of people this was their own form of independent. Around this time a woman who is writing about