Here is another great American road for taking a road trip. The Mohawk Trail in Massachusetts follows an old Native American path and was originally constructed for automobiles in 1914. It is now part of State Route 2.
Over the past several weeks, Irv Townshend and his wife Susan drove across the Lincoln Highway, re-creating a trip that Irv’s father took back in 1924 on a Harley motorycle. Read about both the 1924 trip and this year’s tribute ride on their website.
Thanks to the Lincoln Highway Scenic and Historic Byway Association in Nebraska for the tip!
P. Grover Cleveland, a landscape photographer and history and travel buff, is writing about his trip along the 1913 alignment of the Lincoln Highway from Truckee, California to Salt Lake City on his blog, Camera and Pencil in the Mountains. His posts are full of photos, tips, and GPS waypoints.
To celebrate the Lincoln Highway’s centennial in 2013, a group of classic car and road enthusiasts from Norway are planning a cross-country tour of the highway from New York to San Francisco.
Denny Gibson has a web site chronicling his trip from Ohio to San Francisco across the Lincoln Highway, including this year’s LHA conference in Lake Tahoe, complete with photographs.
The Lincoln Highway is one of the routes recommended by Pennsylvania’s visitor’s bureau for viewing fall foliage in western Pennsylvania.
Ted Butler is walking from Santa Monica, California to the World Trade Center site in New York City to "try and get people more aware of the stimulus that affects us and the decisions we make." His journey took him through DeKalb, Illinois along the Lincoln Highway.
Al Forte of Brooklyn, NY is walking from Yankee Stadium to Wrigley Field in Chicago for his “Pray for Peace” campaign, handing out small prayer cards with a picture of soldiers praying together. His walk took him along the Lincoln Highway in Lima, Ohio.
Dear LHA members,
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the re-establishment of the LHA. Since 1992 a great deal has been accomplished along the historic corridor, and many more people are aware of the road and are out there traveling the back roads of America.
As we approach the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the congressionally appointed Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC) is promoting a greater awareness of our nation’s greatest president and for whom the highway was named. The patriotic approach to building the highway worked in favor of gaining much needed grassroots and political support for the corridor as it was marked in 1913. In late September of this year, the LHA received news that both the 2008 and 2009 LHA conferences have been endorsed by the ALBC. Such an endorsement will be effective in achieving our mission: to preserve and promote the historic road. Our activities take on even greater meaning as we work on very local projects, state-level projects, and national-level projects.
The LHA Board of Directors, committees, and our executive director are setting new goals that focus on the long-term objectives of sustaining our organization’s mission, achieving national byway designations, preserving the road, and collaborating with tourism professionals to promote heritage tourism.
We challenge every member of the LHA and the public to become involved by being a voice for the road, asking others to join the LHA, participating in activities, building collaborations with local and regional partners, and by sharing your own resources, whatever they may be. I urge you to join the leadership of the LHA by offering your time, talents, and resources. We have much work to do, many road trips to take and make new friends to make.
Get out there — drive the road! We look forward to seeing you in Evanston, Wyoming in June 2008 and in South Bend, Indiana in June 2009.
Jan Shupert-Arick, President, LHA
Read more about it the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2006/06-208.html
There’s a 54 minute webcast at the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4012
And visit Bill’s website at:
http://www.uncoveringamerica.com/