CORAL GABLES MUSEUM
and
GREEN MOBILITY NETWORK
present

THE SEERSUCKER SOCIAL BICYCLE TOUR

The Seersucker Social, on Saturday October 16, offered an enjoyable and relaxing biking experience with over 50 participants touring the Gables in their best seersucker ensemble. According to Wikipedia, seersucker was originally worn by the poor in the U.S. until undergraduate students, in an air of reverse snobbery, began to wear the fabric. Damon Runyon wrote that his new habit for wearing seersucker was "causing much confusion among my friends. They cannot decide whether I am broke or just setting a new vogue."

Participants gathered at the University Metrorail Station on Ponce de Leon Boulevard at 10:30am and bicycled through the Gables, with a stop and tour at the Coral Gables Museum, and then pedaled on to the historic Coral Gables Merrick House at 907 Coral Way for a picnic, badminton and croquet. The catered lunch featured fabulous food from the Green Gables Café.

Green Mobility Network is an education and advocacy group that promotes walking, running and bicycling as necessary elements of a healthy and desirable community.

The Coral Gables Museum’s mission is to celebrate, investigate and explore all aspects of architecture, landscape architecture, design and urban planning as well as historic and environmental preservation, set within the context of one of America’s first and most successful planned communities – the City of Coral Gables.

for more information, please contact Christine Rupp at chris@coralgablesmuseum.org