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Bicycling Through Paradise is a collection of twenty historically themed cycling tours broken into 10-mile segments centered around Cincinnati, Ohio. Written by two longtime cyclists—one a professor of history and one an architect—the book is an affectionate, intimate, and provocative reading of the local landscape and history from the perspectives of cycling and Cincinnati enthusiasts. Tours, navigated by Smythe and Hanlon, take cyclers past Native American sites, early settler homesteads, and locations made know through recent Ohio change-makers as navigated by the authors. With extensive details on routes and sites along the way, tours between 20 and 80 miles in length are designed for all levels of cyclists, and even the armchair explorer.Riders and readers will visit towns called Edenton, Loveland, Felicity, and Utopia. Along the journey, they’ll encounter an abandoned Shaker village near the Whitewater Forest and a tiny dairy house called “Harmony Hill,” the oldest standing structure in Clermont County, Ohio. They’ll also take in the view from the top of a 2,000-year-old, 75-foot tall, conical Indian mound at Miamisburg. Riders can follow the Little Miami Scenic Trail and take a detour to a castle on the banks of the Little Miami River. Other sights include a full-scale replica of the tomb of Jesus in Northern Kentucky and the small pleasures of public parks, covered bridges, tree-lined streets, riverside travel, and one-room schoolhouses. And if all this isn’t exactly Paradise, well, it’s pretty close.
Kathleen Smythe is a professor of history and sustainability at Xavier University. Chris Hanlin is an architect, amateur historian, photographer, and longtime cyclist.
Introduction Cycling Advice Part I: Waterways 1. Path Dependency: Layers of History along the Mill Creek Northside, Ivorydale, Elmwood Place, and Lockland 2. William Henry Harrison and the Shawnee Nation The Ohio River Valley West to Harrison’s Tomb, Shawnee Lookout, and Indiana3. Visions and Dreams on the Little Miami Scenic Trail From Milford to Xenia via Loveland Castle, Kings’ Mills, and George Barrett’s Concrete House 4. Floodplains and HilltopsEden and Ault Parks, Cincinnati Observatory, Pioneer Settlement and Lunken Airport 5. Following the River: The Story of Mary InglesAlexandria and Bellevue, Kentucky6. Swimming Pools, Parks, and the Integration of Coney Island7. The Whitewater Canal Route Indiana from West Harrison to Cedar Grove, Brookville, and Metamora Part II: Paradise8. Bicycling Through Paradise Mariemont, Perintown, Harmony Hill, Felicity, and Utopia9. The Party Tour: Breweries and Inclines Amusements Past and Present in Over-The-Rhine10. Town and Country Mt. Airy Forest, Winton Woods, Greenhills, Glendale and Sharon Woods 11. A Holy City: Churches, synagogues, and ShrinesNorthern Kentucky, Downtown Cincinnati, Walnut Hills and Evanston12. Immortality and its Consequences Spring Grove, College Hill, Fernald Preserve, and Whitewater Shaker Village 13. Immortality, Continued Hamilton, the Hollow Earth Monument, Chrisholm Farmstead, and Miamisburg Mound Part III: Big Ideas14. Homeland Insecurity Military Installations from Fort Washington to Newport Barracks to Fort Thomas, Kentucky 15. People, Animals, Water, and Salt Anderson Ferry, Burlington, Kentucky, Rabbit Hash and Big Bone Lick 16. Building a Nation’s Soil: The Civilian Conservation Corps Big Bone Lick and Walton, Kentucky 17. Black Community Leadership in Madisonville 18. Crosstown Missions Xavier University, University of Cincinnati, and Hebrew Union College 19. Art Deco Architecture Lunken Airport, Downtown, Union Terminal, and the Mt. Washington Water Tower 20. Industry, Rustbelt, and Re-development Norwood, Oakley, and Madisonville
