Rick Sebak’s Lincoln Highway documentary premieres

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Rick Sebak’s latest documentary, “A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway,” premiered on PBS on October 29. If you missed it, your local PBS station will probably show it again sometime this weekend — be sure to check your local listings. (For example, KQED in San Francisco is showing it tonight at 6 PM and Wednesday at 2 AM.) You also buy it online at Shop PBS.

It made it onto the “must see” list of many newspapers. Here is some of the more notable press coverage:

And here’s a teaser:

 

Calumet Heritage Conference features Lincoln Highway tour

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The ninth annual Calumet Heritage Conference, “Calumet Crossroads: Changes and Challenges in Regional Transportation,” offered lectures, exhibits and networking opportunities at Indiana University Northwest in Gary…. Conference participants took a bus tour along Lincoln Highway on both sides of the Indiana-Illinois state line. Author and historian Cynthia Ogorek accompanied them as she narrated excepts from her book, “The Historic Lincoln Highway Around Chicago.”

VIP Premiere of Lincoln Highway documentary in Sewickley, Pennsylvania

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Rick Sebak’s latest PBS documentary, “A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway” will debut nationally Oct. 29.

Sebak, of WQED-TV, will host a VIP premiere Oct. 18 at the Sewickley Car Store, which sits along the original route of the Lincoln Highway, the nation’s first coast-to-coast highway.

Recapping the Lincoln Highway Car Show in Bucyrus, Ohio

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There is a never-ending list of charitable functions in town that business owners are asked to sponsor and the general public to attend. Our last car show, Lincoln Highway Car Show on Sept. 6 at Haydocy Chevrolet-Buick, was one such event.