EVOLUTION OF THE BICYCLE AND ITS HISTORY IN LANCASTER COUNTY* By D. B. LANDIS FROM the beginning of human experience man has been a per- sistent walker. Throughout the ages his locomotive travels were aided by further assistance from horses and camels. Then came the addition of chariots, carts and

other archaeological specimens and minerals. In this regular manner, from week to week, traversing miles of local terri- tory, many discoveries were made. A number of these findings, with personal impressions, are here presented for permanent record in The Lancaster County Historical Society's

EARLY ARTS, CUSTOMS AND EXPERIENCES IN RURAL LANCASTER By D. B. LANDIS TO properly acquire some relative conception of the habits and occupations of old-time people in this county, one should have knowledge of its physical or topographical background, with a general idea of former places and early

Lancaster Magazine Clubs of the Nineties By D. B. LANDIS T HE topic of magazine clubs in this locality is a new one for his- torical observation and reference. Not one of the numerous papers in the last thirty odd years, presented before The Lan- caster County Historical Society, contains an

from, of 1808, terms the stream either "the Conestoga" or "river Conestoga." The Lancaster city and county poets have contributed their share, in a literary way, to the romantic and attractive charms of the Conestoga as a river, especially in the foreground at Indian Rock and Media Hill. These authors