Think you’re having a bad day? Is something keeping you down? Need to be inspired? Rich Dixon may just have the right message for you.
The Fort Collins, Colo., man taught math to teenagers – from a wheelchair. Today, after 35 years as a public high school math teacher, he’s a freelance writer and an inspirational speaker who rides around the country on a specially designed cycle – using only his hands. Paralyzed from the chest down due to a freak accident in 1987, he will begin his Wisconsin Hope Tour 2014 on Tuesday, Sept. 2, in Madison. This latest project of Rich’s Ride will also be in Cottage Grove later that week. He will speak at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, at Gaston School Gallery. The talk is free and open to the public.