The Yankee Chatter is the periodic newsletter of the Yankee Chapter of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America. This page contains a collection of articles excerpted from the Chatter since the summer of 2019. June 27, 2019… I just rode by the [Northford Volunteer Fire Department] station house again, and the sign posted out front Read more »
20/20 Vision
Newsletter No. 18: March 27, 2019 It has been too long since my last update. I was kind of waiting for something to report, and now there is so much else going on in the world that this adventure hardly seems important. Still, I can sense the continued interest in the project and now is Read more »
Intermission
From left: Lloyd Hill, Me, my wife Laura, Carolyn Shaw, Dr. Charles Shaw, and Andy Faust. I AM NOW BACK HOME IN OHIO: On the afternoon of Monday, July 29th, I flew home from Flagstaff, Arizona, arriving home around 1:30 am on Tuesday. Willie Fernandez, my driver (and, as it worked out, my indispensable support Read more »
Spectrum News 1 Report
Across America by Motorcycle By Dennis Biviano, Spectrum News 1, Ohio PUBLISHED 4:37 PM ET Jul. 12, 2019 YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – 62-year-old Yellow Springs resident Mark Hunnibell has thought about, and meticulously planned for his trip across America for the last decade. Forty-one years ago he was given this 1919 Henderson Model Z-2 Read more »
How I Found C.K. Shepherd’s Son
My attempts to research and discover any archival details (original manuscript, photos, etc.) from C.K. Shepherd’s 1922 book, Across America by Motor-Cycle, were stymied for years because I could not discover his full name. Ultimately, I resorted to a “brute force” approach. I logged into the WWI military records section of The National Archives in Read more »
Map and Timetable Update
Here is a quick Memorial Day weekend update to let you know the web site and YouTube channel has some new content related to my route and schedule this summer. The Route page on the web site has a link to the narrated moving map YouTube video, 4:52). A high-resolution image of the map is Read more »
The Red One at the Blessing of the Bikes
On Sunday, May 19, 2019, thousands of other bikers and I attended the 19th Annual Blessing of the Bikes in Xenia, Ohio. While there, thanks to help from Marshall Foiles at Buckminn’s D&D, a Harley-Davidson dealer in Xenia, I got a prime piece of corner real estate in the thick of it where I met Read more »
Newsletter No. 4 is out! Oley, Events, The Book, Route & Stops, Mechanical, and Magazine
Early this afternoon, I transmitted Newsletter No. 4. Check here if you did not receive it or would like to subscribe to get future editions. In the newsletter, I reported on a few things: (a) my visit to the AMCA Perkiomen Chapter National Meet in Oley, Pennsylvania this year. (b) two upcoming events I will Read more »
Newsletter No. 3, new Web Site Up, Oley Next
I just transmitted Newsletter No. 3 to the fans. Check here if you did not receive it or would like to subscribe to get future editions. There is plenty of other news to report as well. For example, the new web site is live today. Just after it went live, I did my first podcast Read more »
1919 Henderson Motorcycle at Daytona Bike Week 2019
I made it down to Daytona Bike Week this year and put in three appearances with “the Red One” at three venues over four days: The AMCA Sunshine Chapter meet in New Smyrna Beach Donnie’s Donuts in New Smyrna Beach, and The Broken Spoke Saloon in Ormond Beach. This YouTube video capturing the best of Read more »