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Visiting Radium Hot Springs and the surrounding areas for Labour Day Weekend 2013.
Always a treat to pull over before leaving the town of Radium to marvel at the beauty of Sinclair Canyon.
SINCLAIR LEWIS Story
When Harry Sinclair Lewis was born here on a bitter cold day, February 7th.1885, Sauk Centre, Minnesota was a raw prairie town with an unpaved main street and five or six blocks of false store fronts. A gawky, sensitive child who achieved little success in school and was the brunt of every crude piece of horseplay, “Red” Lewis spent most of his youth tagging after his adored older brother and doctor-father, and reading every book he could find. He began to write at age fifteen. Despite the years of lost jobs and false hopes that followed his graduation from Yale University in 1908, he persisted in his determination to be a writer.
With the publication of "Main Street" and "Babbitt", Lewis became a successful novelist and critic of American culture, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. He returned frequently to Minnesota; never able to deny his underlying attachment to the Northern Middle West, he described it as “..the newest empire of the world…a land of dairy herds and exquisite lakes, of new automobiles and tarpaper shanties and silos like red towers, of clumsy speech and a hope that is boundless.” Lewis’ talent declined and he died alone in Italy on January 10, 1951. As he had requested, his ashes were brought home to Sauk Centre.
Der Konstrukteur Sinclair ist der, der auch den ZX Spektrum erfunden hatte (berühmter Heimcomputer aus der Zeit). Das Dreirad konnte mit Batterie fahren oder mit Pedalantrieb. Es war zu teuer und wurde kaum verkauft. Vollkunststoffkarosserie, 250 W Eektromotor, Rechweite 35 km, 25 km/h, Gesamtgewicht 45 kg, Baujahr 1985.