Ronnie O’Brien, Nebraska state director of the LHA and Director of Cultural Education at the Great Platte River Road Archway, is traveling across Nebraska to bring the Lincoln Highway to life to students throughout the state.
Virginia Giorgis, editor of the Bridger Valley Pioneer, writes about the history of Carter Avenue in Fort Bridger, Wyoming, which she says was part of the Lincoln Highway through town.
The Repository of Canton, Ohio has a photo gallery of the reconstruction of the Lincoln Highway/State Route 172 bridge over railroad tracks in Canton Township, Ohio. The bridge is scheduled to reopen in December 2012.
The American Bus Association, a trade association of motorcoach operators and tour companies in the U.S. and Canada, has named next year’s Lincoln Highway centennial as one of its Top 100 events of 2013 in North America.
Thanks to George Albrecht, who sent us a couple of photos of a trip his family took to the Grand View Ship Hotel in Pennsylvania, 60 years ago.
Bernard and Esther Queneau recently visited Frankfort, Illinois to see the village’s Lincoln Highway mural. It features four Eagle Scouts on their road trip across the Lincoln Highway in 1928, including a 16-year-old Bernie.
The Road Map Collectors Association is holding its first meeting in California in ten years on October 26–27 at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. At the meeting, you can buy, sell, trade, or simply savor thousands of collectible road maps, and there will be a special presentation on the life of H.M. Gousha.
The Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition has added an interactive map of its murals and gazebos throughout the state.
Thanks to Cece Otto for the tip!
The Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor is developing a new museum on the Lincoln Highway in an 1815 stone house east of Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Batavia, Illinois is the latest to have a Lincoln Highway mural installed by the Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition.