Not everybody get’s their name on a bike rack

Awhile ago, a faithful reader asked me if I’d been to the library lately. No, not lately.

I should take a look at the new bike rack near the front door, he said. It’s not your usual bike rack. Instead of a nondescript collection of welded pipes, this one is uniquely designed to celebrate local authors.

Among the names on the rack — itself designed to look like one long bicycle — are Ernie Kroeger, Wayne Norton, Peter Grauer, Vincent Bezeau and…. Mel Rothenburger.

The TNRD came up with the idea quite some time ago and asked a number of local authors if they’d mind having their names put on a new bike rack that was then in the process of being designed.

Mind? It’s way cool is what it is. Not a lot of people can say they have their name on a bike rack. I hadn’t realized the project had been completed and installed.

By the way, the book they picked to put under my name is The Wild McLeans. I still get asked several times a year where the book can be purchased and, alas, I must tell them that the only place it can now be found is in the second-hand bin or through the Internet.

Since I wrote the book many years ago, I’ve collected more information on my remarkable forefathers, as well as more photos. Who knows, some day, I might revise the book and seek a new publisher.