Ken Kifer (October 23, 1945 – September 14, 2003) was a writer, bicyclist and webmaster. His website is still a source of information on bicycling and especially bicycle touring. Ken Kifer was killed by a drunk driver in September 2003 while riding his bicycle just 6 miles (9.7 km) from his home near Scottsboro, Alabama, USA.
Kifer was also a Walden scholar and admirer of Henry David Thoreau, and wrote Analysis and Notes on Walden.
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“Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man’s ken now are but poor- mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents.
Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance,
Ignorance bringing them nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)