Jean Davidson, '61
Jean Davidson's Harley-Davidson Family Album: 100 Years of the World's
Greatest Motorcycle in Rare Photos. Hardcover,
128 pages, Voyageur Press, March 2003
Davidson, granddaughter of Walter Davidson, one of the four founders and the first president of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company, is also the author of Growing Up Harley-Davidson: Memoirs of a Motorcycle Dynasty (2001). She first rode on one of her family's motorcycles at age three and is a former Harley-Davidson dealer and, more recently, a retired member of the faculty at Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Booklist says of her most recent book, Family Album: "Page after eye-catching and attention-arresting page takes readers down memory lane as the author discusses such topics as Harley-Davidson's first venture into motorcycle racing, the family life of the men who were the founders, women workers at H-D factories, and H-D during wartimes."
The 100th anniversary of Harley-Davidson is being celebrated in 2003-04.
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