Jack Bradigan Spula (Comments: 3)

Jack Bradigan Spula was born and raised in Niagara Falls, NY, and came to Rochester in 1965 to attend the Eastman School of Music, where he studied piano and musicology, worked as a music librarian, and somehow failed to engage with the struggles then occurring in the outside world. A stint in the US military slowly woke him up, and he gravitated toward the written word, descending to Houston, TX, for a creative writing program and then returning to New York State, where he took up political activism and alternative journalism. Today he makes his living from college teaching, private piano instruction, and freelance writing and blogging, and for fun he fires broadsides at Late Capitalism and other social pathologies.

Jack has been devoted to two-wheelers since his newsboy days, when he biked a morning delivery route for the now defunct Buffalo Courier-Express. During the 1970s “Bike Boom,” he exchanged his old Schwinn cruiser for a 10-speed and experimented with long rides in the Finger Lakes region, where he had gone “back to the land.” With his dual love for the natural world and for non-polluting transportation, Jack eventually went car-free; today he’s a year-round bike commuter, occasional bike tourist, and part-time transportation activist. He intends to study every hill and dale in his beloved Eastern Great Lakes bioregion. And he immodestly hopes to leave a better world for his two grown kids and two rapidly sprouting grandkids.

• Read Jack’s essays for RocBike.com.
• Learn more about Jack at Rochester Dissident.