Fred Birchmore

Fred A. Birchmore (1912–2012)[1] was a renowned adventurer from Athens, Georgia, best known for his 1935 travels around the world on a bicycle.[2] His Reinhardt bicycle, which he named 'Bucephalus', is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.[3] Fred was also notable in Athens for hand-building a massive stone wall, over 2 meters tall in places, when he was in his 70s, and walking down the steps of the Washington Monument on his hands.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2012-04-15/renowned-adventurer-fred-birchmore-dies-100
  2. ↑ Birchmore, Fred A. "Around the World on a Bicycle", Cucumber Island Storytellers, 1996 ISBN 1-887813-12-8
  3. ↑ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fred-birchmores-amazing-bicycle-trip-around-the-world-1462409/?no-ist
  4. ↑ http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2012-04-15/renowned-adventurer-fred-birchmore-dies-100


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