Norman Root

Norman Root, long-time member of the Lincoln Highway Association, president of the California chapter and past California state director, has passed away. He was also a retired bridge engineer for the California Department of Transportation. Norm will be sorely missed.

Lincoln Highway mural in Oswego, IL honors Boy Scouts

The Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition’s latest mural installation, in the Illinois town of Oswego, pays tribute to the Boy Scouts and their installation of thousands of concrete markers along the Lincoln Highway in 1928.

Midwest art exhibit includes Lincoln Highway roadside

An art exhibit by William Scarlato, art instructor at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois, includes a painting of a blue Quonset-hut bar along the Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, Illinois.

Beautifying the Lincoln Highway in South Bend, Indiana

Lincoln Highway Association member Joyce Chambers writes about the beautification project of a railroad viaduct near the Lincoln Highway in South Bend, Indiana.

Woman walks from San Francisco to New York because she feels like it

Catherine Li is walking across the country from Daly City, just outside San Francisco, to New York, because she “just felt like walking” and wants to live in the moment. Not surprisingly, her journey has taken her down the Lincoln Highway.

Proposed interchange would spare Youngville Cafe

As part of the widening of US 30, the Iowa Department of Transportation is proposing a new interchange where it intersects US 218. The design spares the Youngville Cafe, a Lincoln Highway landmark, but changes its access from US 30 to a driveway off of US 218.

Lincoln Highway rally in Pennsylvania returns

The Lincoln Highway Road Rally in Pennsylvania, organized by the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, returns October 8 and 9, after a three-year hiatus.

Another cookbook from the creator of the Illinois Lincoln Highway cookbook

David Alan Badger, who has written and illustrated several cookbooks such as Recipes from the Illinois Lincoln Highway National Scenic Byway, has put together another one called The Meeting of the Great Rivers.