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.
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.
JOURNAL SNEAK PEEK: Teal Roofs and Pecan Logs
By Lisa Raflo and Jeffrey Durbin: Though it now mostly follows current corporate trends, Stuckey’s was once a daring innovator whose Pecan Shoppes were the precursors of the convenience store.