Route 66: Another Perspective on “Mother” Road
A new public history project, The Women on the Mother Road: Route 66, sheds light on women’s experiences along the historic highway.
2022
We were so excited to be back in person for a full tour this year when our postponed NYC: The Golden Age of Air Travel tour at the TWA Hotel finally got off the ground. We also took part in Docomomo-US’ Tour Day with our Revisit the Whitehall Mall: A Shopping Gem of the Golden…
Miss Alma Makes a Bee Line: A Story of One Woman and Two Auto Trails
By John and Kris Murphey – As the first female transcontinental highway booster, Alma Rittenberry had promoted her Jackson Highway not only as a memorial to the former President nicknamed “Old Hickory,” but as a progressive path to get farmers out of the mud and a source of “financial and cultural gain” for the North and South.