Name: Cindy Parks signs 'This Was at a Time
Start: 2026-04-08T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 1900 NW Expy Ste 135, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, Oklahoma 73118

With adventurous spirit and minimal preparation, a young woman departs Oklahoma on her bicycle with three men, heading toward New York. Her high school sweetheart studies paper maps and guides the crew on rural roads. They carry their supplies and endure springtime thunderstorms. At sunset, they look for places to bed down—church lawns, strangers' acreages, and old barns. The journey takes place at a time when folks answered their landline telephones, wrote letters, received their news from three TV stations, and sang the same radio hits. The glory, the pain, the beauty, the agony, and the love are all shared.
Cindy Parks is a loving wife, the mother of three sons, and an elementary teacher of more than forty years. Her new book This Was at a Time is the stirring true account of her bicycle ride from Oklahoma toward New York, and the incredible experiences she and her traveling companions faced along the way.