JOURNAL SNEAK PEEK: 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.
