News & Advocacy

Weekly news tour courtesy of Raina Regan (with a Michael Hirsch assist). Why a duck?

This week’s news from the roadside curated by SCA president Michael Hirsch. Always an interesting journey!

Take a Sunday drive with Emily Taggert Schricker and Keith Schulle past Natick’s “Man on a Ladder,” the U.S.’s oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant, a new roadside museum dedicated to the African-American experience on Route 66, Surry’s digital time machine, and the Haines Shoe House, where we pay tribute to late owner Melanie Schmuck.

Five news items of interest brought to us this week by SCA VP Jeremy Ebersole.

We can always count on Raina Regan to curate a wonderfully quirky collection of roadside news items. And Keith Sculle adds a bonus.

Join Michael Hirsch on a tour down the eclectic highway, which thanks to the internet, crosses borders ... and oceans ... unimpeded.

To celebrate the start of the SCA Journal Scanning Project, for a limited time we are offing our first issue – Fall-Winter 1994-95 – as a FREE download.

Five news stories curated by our own Emily Taggart Schricker, including one about a freshman Nevada lawmaker and a group of schoolchildren from Carson City who hope to make a certain noble gas the state’s official element.

From ”Heart Bombing” to historic theaters to a secret history that has now become an important tourist attraction, SCA VP Jeremy Ebersole takes us on a fascinating roadside tour of America via five preservation-centric news items.

This week's news includes stories of the sad end of an Arizona classic, the happy reopening of a Northampton landmark, an effort to "re-neonize" Havana and a bonus article on an historic filling station on Maui. Let’s go!