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Title: Bicycle Tour of Brownfields and Polluted Sites in Downtown Rochester
Location: Departs from Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Description: July 19 Bicycle Tour of Brownfields and Polluted Sites in Downtown Rochester
Guide: Mark Gregor, Manager, Department of Environmental Quality, City of Rochester

Start Time: 1pm
Date: July 19
End Time: 3pm

Title: Bicycle Tour of Edible Gardens
Location: Departs from Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Start Time: 1pm
Date: June 28
End Time: 3pm
Description: Where can Rochestarians find good food, community fun, great smells, and exercise all rolled up in one urban experience? Edible inner-city gardens of course! Join avid amateur gardeners, Colleen Buzzard and Hucky Land, for a bicycle tour of some of Rochester’s community garden treats. $1 / free for members Departs from RoCo, Sunday, June 28 @ 1pm.

Title: A Labor History Bike Tour     guide: Jon Garlock
a New History Tour
Date: 2008-09-14
Start Time: 3:00pm
End Time: 5:00pm
Location: departs from Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Avenue

Description: After a brief orientation the tour will leave RoCo at 3 pm and visit downtown sites celebrating the history of Rochester’s workers — their jobs, their issues, and their unions. Stops include the convention center,where famous orators spoke; the aqueduct, which launched the city’s economy;the first labor lyceum site; the centers of grain milling and the production of cigarettes, clothing, shoes and cameras; the headquarters of the central labor bodies; the sites of the union-run Labor Chest, an anti-chain store campaign, the first demonstration of the 1946 General Strike, and more. The tour will conclude with Q&A at RoCo with Jon Garlock, co-author of the Rochester Labor History Map/Guide, and All these Years of Effort, free copies of which will be available.

Photos from other past New History Tours