Velosophie : Photo Gallery
All Photos by Ryan Lewis, IHC Program Officer
Facilitators Adam Davis and Mark Rockwell (l to r) prepare for the first group discussions at White Pines State Park outside of Mt. Morris, Illinois.
Mark Rockwell and Ryan Lewis (l to r) setup their tent in White Pines State Park.
(Photo by Adam Davis)
Velosophie participants surveying the day's route in Thomson, Illinois.
Cyclists on hilly Blackjack Road, south of Galena, Illinois.
The northwestern Illinois landscape is dotted with farmsteads much like this one outside of Hanover, Illinois.
Farmstead with a one-room schoolhouse near Scenic Ridge Road east of Savanna, Illinois.
Velosophie participants engage one another and Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics in Mississippi Palisades State Park, Savanna, Illinois.
Helena Worthen contrasts Aristotle's Greece to modern America.
Mimi Toney (in green jacket) and Andrew Kuby (background center) compare observations on Jack London's, "Love of Life" and Franz Kafka's, "The Hunger Artist" in Mississippi Palisades State Park.
Adam Davis (in white t-shirt) and Stephen Newell (bottom right) talk about Aristotle's meaning of pleasure in Mississippi Palisades State Park.
Jerry Kaminski (with cap) reads from Kafka's "The Hunger Artist," while GITAP coordinator Chuck Oestreich (center right) listens in.
Velosophie facilitator Mark Rockwell cycles through the Ayers Sand Prairie Nature Preserve south of Savanna, Illinois.
Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia humifusa) at the Ayers Sand Prairie Nature Preserve, south of Savanna, Illinois.
Cycling through Illinois prairie country only a few miles from the Mississippi River.
"De Immigrant" windmill atop the Mississippi levee in Fulton, Illinois. Engineered and pre-fabricated in the Netherlands, "De Immigrant" is a functioning mill and the only authentic Dutch windmill in Illinois.
Participants camp on the grounds of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
Velosophie participants consider Ursula LeGuin's, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" and Edward Hoagland's, "The Threshold and the Jolt of Pain" at Augustana College.
Velosophie facilitator Adam Davis rides Illinois' back roads to Morrison-Rockwood State Park.
Velosophie participants Jessica Becker (center) and David Kvernes (right) approach the covered bridge outside of Morrison, Illinois on the week's last ride.
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